From the course: Video Foundations: Cameras and Shooting
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Understanding the types of microphones for video shooting
From the course: Video Foundations: Cameras and Shooting
Understanding the types of microphones for video shooting
In this movie, I'm going to give you an introduction to the wonderful world of microphones. But before we can get into the various types of microphones, we need to have a clear understanding of how each type of mic records audio, otherwise known as the mic's pickup pattern. Think of pickup pattern the same way you think of various prime lenses. Each type of lens, wide, telephoto, or normal, capture the certain amount of the scene visually, where each type of mic pickup pattern, Cardioid, Hypercardioid, or Omni, captures audio in a different way. So let's break down each of those patterns. First up, we're going to talk about Omnidirectional mics. The word omni means all in Latin, so Omnidirectional-- or omni mics for short--are mics that pick up sound equally in all directions. So that means sounds coming from the rear, the sides and the front and the back are all heard equally prominent on the soundtrack regardless of which direction they are coming from. Now because of this lack of…
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