still shooting
yesterday we were working with the documentary a little bit, we interviewed a Professor from the Austin University, and we talked to him for a couple of hours about facts, and statistics about Hispanics or Latinos like he said this side of the country would rather label us. We had our sound guy on site, and the place where we were shooting was very nice, and so the floor of the room was marble….so!! we had a problem, the sound was bouncing off the marble!!! but thankfully we had a wireless microphone that we placed on his lap, also we had another mic that we plugged to the second camera. So usually when we record we use two cameras obviously in different angles and we have two mics and we sinc the sound by using a clapper, so that when we edit we can get the sound to match the image.
So a bit of advise always carry extra equipment, mics, batteries, stands, tools…etc!!! you never know what you can encounter while filming on location. Always think of what can go wrong instead of thinking what is going to be good. I hope i make sense, what i’m trying to say is if you prepare yourself for the worst you will always be prepare to fix it.
