From the course: Video for Photographers: 1 Filmmaking Essentials
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Techniques and types and microphones
From the course: Video for Photographers: 1 Filmmaking Essentials
Techniques and types and microphones
- As photographers, we use different lenses for different projects. The widest lens is never wide enough for an architectural photographer. And the longest lens is never long enough for a sports photographer. Microphones are the same. We have different kinds to perform different tasks. We have, for example, a lavalier mic, like the one I'm wearing right now, which will record my voice but very little of the ambient sound, and nothing behind me. I also have a boom mic right here, that is pointed directly to my mouth so it is recording my voice but almost nothing around it and definitely nothing behind it. We have other devices like a shotgun mic, very similar to the boom mic, that we can attach to the hot shoe on our camera. And because it's pointed directly in front of the lens, it's recording what's in front of the lens, and not on the sides or behind. That's a great microphone to have on the field if you're shooting by yourself. An H4n like this has built in mics which will record…
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