Wednesday, I ran audio for a corporate client that was doing a training video. It was a short video about a new method of changing the oil on a big rig truck. Nick Modisett was camera and we shot on a Panasonic HVX200.
We did a couple interviews and then shot appropriate B-roll of the actual step by step process of the oil change. I basically mic’d up the talent for the interviews, and then ran the boom for some of the b-roll for extra audio. I’m starting to get used this audio bag. The principles of audio are the same as I used to know them, I just carry everything with me.
I carry a SoundDevices 442 - 4 channel Field Mixer, and 3 sets of Lectrosonics wireless transmitters and receivers, and a Sennheiser Shotgun Mic mounted on a boom pole. As well as lavaliere mics, batteries, Moleskin, clips, etc…
Ha Ha, Don’t Laugh Too hard
From the mixer, a 7 pin cable runs to a pigtail on the camera that converts it to a left and right channel and then also runs a return so I can head what the camera is recording.
What’s cool too is that if I’m running around with the camera guy, I can opt to go wireless to the camera with a 2 channel transmitter/receiver. This method also lets me feed Audio to other cameras if they tune in to my frequency. So we can do a multicamera shoot with one audio guy feeding the same audio to all of them, wireless. Should come in handy when NASCAR starts.
The SteadyCam:
Back to the truck shoot. If was pretty straight foreword and the client also hired a Steadycam operator to do some walking and driving shots. The operator built a pretty awesome rig to fit on the back of a hatched vehicle to get follow shots of vehicles and such.
Those shots came out pretty awesome, as you can imagine.
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