From the course: Video for Photographers: 2 Filmmaking on Location

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Recording audio

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- We talked about camera movement. Now we need to talk about sound. Those are the two main differences between shooting stills and shooting video. And sound, unfortunately, is an extremely important subject. Some people that it's over 50% of a movie. All the budget, all the talent, all the acting, script, editing, music, grading, all that represents 50% of a movie, and sound, the other 50%. And you know what? It's true, it's that important. So, let's go over, let's do a quick overview of the different microphones that we're using here on set. The first one is this Shotgun mic, a Rode VideoMic that we're using on our Camera B. This is a GH4 with a 72,200, and we're using it as our tight shot with a Shotgun mic. We consider this scratch sound. So, what that means is, it's not the main sound, we might not even use it, but we are using to record better sound than if we're using the built-in microphone on the camera, and we can use it also to sync all our footage with the sound. So, it is…

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