5 Location recording
It is wise to think of ‘on location’ as meaning anywhere away from the controlled environment of the studio. For the purposes of this introductory book we will assume that the shooting is taking place using one camera, with the intention of editing everything together later.
Before you go off on your PSC (portable single camera) shoot there is a little planning for the sound team to do. Every location should have been visited by the director and or PA and there should be either a plan of the location or, at the very least, lots of notes about it. Once you leave for the location it is a long, time-consuming, way back,
It is possible, with modern camcorders, to do a ‘single person shoot’. Theoretically one person is both ...
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