This document provides tips and recommendations for improving video and audio quality when filming. It suggests investing in a good quality condenser microphone to capture clear audio, especially of the human voice. It also recommends using a shotgun microphone and avoiding recording in rooms with hard surfaces to reduce echoes. Additional tips include giving the viewer dramatic camera angles, avoiding backlighting, and having the subject face the light. Accessories like sound panels, tripods, and lavalier microphones are also mentioned to enhance production quality.

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2. @RobertRiggs
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Telling Stories in the Digital Age

3. I got mine first...take that Stephen

4. The Back Button is the Biggest Threat to your Content

5. Viewers do not forgive poor audio

6. ”The SOUND
and music are
fifty percent of
the
entertainment in
a movie.”
Courtesy: LUCASFILM Ltd

7. #soundfails

8. TonySchwartz.org
The distance from the person on camera to the audience is
the distance between their lips and the microphone.

9. Johnny Carson was Always Closer to his Audience

10. The boom mic is way up here.

11. Invest in a Good Quality
Condenser Microphone
It’s Good at Picking Up Minute Detail Sounds
Especially the HumanVoice
Produces aNatural-Clean-Clear Sound

12. SHOTGUN MIC
An all purpose directional condenser mic

13. Shotgun on a boom

14. Handheld Shotgun

15. Avoid recording audio in spaces with hard surfaces
This room needs to be deadened

16. Install acoustic sound panels to deadened the room

17. ZOOM Q3HD
Great for video blogging

18. GoPro Camera Resources

19. Great for outdoors in bright sunny days

20. Jerry-rigged for shooting docs in the bush

21. Give the viewer dramatic camera angles

24. Great for time lapse videos

25. Avoid backlighting

26. Too much shadow

27. Too hot from backlight
Rule of thumb: the subject should always face the light

28. Great Tutorials

29. Shop Lights
Daylight Color CFL Bulbs
Rosco Diffusion Material

30. Zgrip iPhone Jr. with Apogee MiC
zacuto.com
apogeedigital.com

31. There’s an app to control the iPhone lens

32. Shoot with the phone on the horizontal axis
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explosion

33. Rode SmartLav
Lavalier Microphone
Rode.com

34. Record Audio on one iPhone
and shoot on another

35. Great software for synching the audio in editing

37. Digital Cinema
HDSLR

39. It’s Gone Hollywood

40. Must Watch Tutorials

41. Fits In Tight Spaces

43. High Definition

44. Audio Recorder for Separate Tracks