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The convenience of location is not really great concept to hang a film on but anyway, at least it's experience. To answer your question I would suggest you spend a good few days there or around. Don't speak to or engage anyone, just watch. Look for the shop's routine and key moments, try and...

Hiring is always cheaper than buying. You might even find a beginner soundy with a zoom and rode mic willing to work for a small fee or maybe evn expenses

I've used that once but not with a DR100. Hiss was very minor with that and not a problem most of the time, better than the Tascam. The promix can supply phantom from it's twin 9v batteries so you can use other mics without the Tascam running flat every few minutes.

Wow! Love that second clip especially the way he quickly and confidently changes positions and boom handling. A true master Just watched that first one, almost a cinema verite scene, every boom ops nightmare. Particularly impressed with the booming in and out of the doorway. There's bits in...

I used to regularly use an ME66, quite a handy and decent mic. I also own a 416 so can comment a little on how the two compare. The 416 is immediately obvious as much smoother sounding and detailed but the ME66 is still decent enough for ENG or indie shorts. With some work in post you may be...

To address the point of acting as boom-op/recordist the vast majority of the times I have done that role the only channel I was recording is the boom. Set the levels correctly during rehearsal and then just try and keep an eye on the levels to ensure you don;t unexpectedly clip. Set levels to...

Don't know if I'm reading it right but I understood it was the venue's PA that suffered from distortion. From what I know that software is designed for interpolating information lost through digital clipping. Repairing what may well be a good recording of analogue distortion may not give such...

it's an interesting 'if all else fails, back up against a wall' solution but definitely not a replacement for radio mics. First thing that springs to mind is getting audio on a rollercoaster ride with a pencil cam that can't take audio. Then again I don't have the eyes of a hawk to notice the...

Oh yes, a valid point. If I do normalise it would be the individual stems so I don't run out of fader movement when mixing low volume recordings. If I am being particularly lazy I have sometimes normalised the final mix if I find I don't have much time to play with the mix level (should point...

@knightly Oh wow! An articulated boom with rear counterbalance??? Genius!! Serioulsy you must of put that poor kid off boom-opping for life. Hope it wasn't the old fashioned iron stands like mine! Loving the ingenious blimp. Not sure if you already have but stretching a pair of tights over...

I guess how wide this mastershot is gonna be, the position of the actors and how noisy an environment is dictate a lot of how you can go about this. If it is a wide shot with actors right up close, as confrontations tend to be, a single lav may well catch them both adequately, if not two...

Shooting in west london is always a real pain. Had some awfully scheduled shoots including a shoot that coincided with the opening days of the occupy london movement just a block away. Had a police or news chopper constantly overhead. Compounded by the fact my characters were on the riverside...

OK this is intriguing. Would this be because with the peaks set to zero any processing that adds gain will push those peaks into clipping? I do often normalise as part of my workflow but as a final process. Anyways I always find normalising at the start of workflow useless because slate...

I have had unbalanced feeds from large professional desks at concerts simply because the FOH engineer is using the balanced outs or just being a bit lazy. I have come across hostile FOH mixers (despite the station I was getting the feed for organising the concert and hence generated their job)...

I've used a DR100 (MkI) in the past and with a lot of work and getting in close enough you can put down some decent audio. If you can manage to get close enough to not go over about 6 on medium gain you should be OK for indie productions. I am glad to see a bag/sling has finally been released...

I use an electric cig. They have a light the end that lights up when inhaling though some are blue not orange. The vapour that is inhaled then exhaled does look a lot like smoke, even hangs in the air. Obviously the front of the cig don't smoke when being held and there is no nice ash stack...

+1 on the herbals

Shotgun mics may be a bit big and unwieldy and unless they are aimed squarely at the source they will probs sound worse than another choice of mic. I've never had to do anything like this before but I would consider a few planted mics in similar positions you have mentioned. Discreetly placed...

The iphone can absolutely be used as a professional film making tool at the highest level. Use it to ring the hire company to book your cameras :D The quality of the lens is pretty poor and you have little control. Can't really see a way round the poor quality of the lens but with the right...

I'm kinda guessing that the audio inputs on the gopro 2 will more than likely end up going through automoatic gain control, making them next to useless except for guide audio, whatever mic you plug in. Be useful for synching in post though. Can anyone confirm this??