RTV-3531 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pistol Grip, Inverse-Square Law, Zoom Lens
Document Summary
If you have bad sound, you have a bad project. Bad sound will overshadow everything else in the lm. Audio is more important than your video. Bad sound sabotages everything - even content. Audience will forgive a certain amount of visual errors; not audio. Cranking up the levels of audio if it"s too low will also crank up white noise. If you record sound that is too loud, it"ll be overmodulated, distorted, unintelligible, and will have major issues. Distorted audio is distorted audio, no editing or tweaking can really x that. Simple audio guidelines (five sound rules to live by) Get the microphone as close as possible, without getting in the shot. The closer the mic, the better the quality of the recording. There are a wide variety of things that can ruin sound that can be picked up by headphones, but not ears. Monitor the sound being recorded to camera.
