From the course: Video for Photographers: 1 Filmmaking Essentials
The ear, not the eye, leads the senses
From the course: Video for Photographers: 1 Filmmaking Essentials
The ear, not the eye, leads the senses
- Sound. That's something we never had to worry about as photographers. And now some people say it's 50% of a movie. The script, the acting, the lighting, composition, movement, the editing. All that together is 50%. The other half is sound. And unfortunately it is true. It is that important. So much so that if I can only pay one person on my crew, it would be the sound person, someone who is constantly recording and monitoring the sound. Think about it. We're shooting an interview. Everything is perfect. Beautiful framing, beautiful light, beautiful composition, we have a little bit of movement, fantastic. We go back, no sound. We have nothing. There is nothing we can do to save the interview. But if the opposite happens, we do something wrong with the camera, or the image is not perfectly sharp or something else, we make any other mistake but we have beautiful, clean sound, we can save the project. We use bureau or archive images or something else on top or even we make a podcast, but we can save the project. Without sound there's nothing. So please give sound a very high priority on any and every video production you work on from now on.
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