From the course: Video Journalism: Storytelling Techniques
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Miking and lighting tips - Premiere Pro Tutorial
From the course: Video Journalism: Storytelling Techniques
Miking and lighting tips
Getting good audio is a critical part of video storytelling. In this lesson I am going to show you how I and my audio and light guy, Greg, set things up. My default audio setup is a single wireless lavalier mic for the primary subject of the story and a shotgun mic on the camcorder. I use a wireless lav because it's unobtrusive. It puts the person using it at ease. They frequently forget they're wearing it. What that also means is that even if I'm not pointing my camera at them, I'm still getting their audio, which I can use with other video in the story if need be. Jeff: That way it's under your T-shirt. I make sure that if the person wearing the mic might remove some clothing like a sweatshirt, that they put mic wire under whatever they are wearing under the sweatshirt. I also place the mics such that clothes or hair don't brush up against it. I wired up one client who later under her pony tail, such that her hair rubbed up against the mic. That's why we have these good headset to…
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