Sound Design for Low & No Budget Films

Chapter 2 Location Sound

How Was That for Sound?

1. a. Common Mistakes
2. b. Single System
3. c. Double System
4. d. Timecode
5. e. Slate
6. f. Smart Slate
7. g. Boom and Lavaliere
8. h. Wired and Wireless
9. i. Wide Shots and Close-Ups
10. j. Two-Plus Camera Set-Up
11. k. Exercise
12. l. Sample Sound Report Form

Common Mistakes

Recording sound without headphones. I always say that you wouldn’t shoot picture without looking through the viewfinder, so why would you record sound without listening through headphones? Headphones not only tell you if you are picking up a good dialogue signal, but they also tell you if there are any sounds in the background that are unwanted.

Positioning the microphone too far away from the speaker or sound source. The farther away from the sound source, ...