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Equipment package for a narrative scene

Equipment package for a narrative scene

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Equipment package for a narrative scene

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Now let's just take a look at a typical package that I would take on a narrative shoot. Starting with one of the chief things you want any time recording narrative, you're going to need a boom pole. The lighter weight, the better. But if it's heavier, not that big a deal. But it will go a little bit easier on the boom operator's arms if you have a light weight boom pole. So boom pole is number one. And along with the boom pole, you're also going to need a shotgun microphone. This is going to be our chief microphone. If I don't have any other mic at all, I'm definitely going to want to have at least one good shotgun microphone. In this case, I've got the old workhorse Sennheiser MKH-416 microphone right here, with the wind foam on it of course. And, in addition to that, I want to make sure that I have a good shock mount on my boom pole. And that's going to help take up any handling noise, help if I'm moving around the boom, it's not going to get too noisy. But not just any kind of…

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