Hi all,
I am now editing my short film shot a couple of days ago...My location sound recorder recorded our sound with both shotgun and lavalier mic for most of the scenes and therefore I got mostly 2-3 different sound tracks for editing, and I am a bit confused here.
From my poor sound knowledge learning from film school, it seems in most cases shotgun sound sources are our first choice for doing editing, I am not sure if this is right...Actually I cannot quite tell the huge difference between those sound tracks. I mean I understand lavalier mic picks up clearer dialogues since it's an omni mic and hide close under the actor's mouth. I just wanna ask what is the criteria to pick up sound in post?
Is it that if the dialogues are clear with no noise, we choose the sound recorded by shotgun, if there's some problems with it, we choose the sound recorded by lavalier as a second choice? Or another different understanding, we choose Lavalier's sound as a first choice when there's dialogue during that take?
Any suggestions? Thanks a lot!!
I am now editing my short film shot a couple of days ago...My location sound recorder recorded our sound with both shotgun and lavalier mic for most of the scenes and therefore I got mostly 2-3 different sound tracks for editing, and I am a bit confused here.
From my poor sound knowledge learning from film school, it seems in most cases shotgun sound sources are our first choice for doing editing, I am not sure if this is right...Actually I cannot quite tell the huge difference between those sound tracks. I mean I understand lavalier mic picks up clearer dialogues since it's an omni mic and hide close under the actor's mouth. I just wanna ask what is the criteria to pick up sound in post?
Is it that if the dialogues are clear with no noise, we choose the sound recorded by shotgun, if there's some problems with it, we choose the sound recorded by lavalier as a second choice? Or another different understanding, we choose Lavalier's sound as a first choice when there's dialogue during that take?
Any suggestions? Thanks a lot!!