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What's your budget? $500.00, $1,000.00, more? Help us narrow it down a bit. I would recommend the Sennheiser MKH-60 Shotgun (about $2,700.00) with a Rycote blimp (about $700.00) and a K-Tec boom pole (about $600.00), and the Fostex FR-2 digital field recorder (about $2,000.00) plus misc...

Perhaps two radically different characters? Gay basher/Gay activist Liberal/Conservative Devoutly religious/Athiest How teens see senior citizens/How senior citizens see teens Predator/Prey Focusing on differences can create tension, highlighting similarities can create comedy. Just my 2 ducats.

If you only need a stereo system the Bose Companion 5 Multimedia Speaker System - 2.1 Stereo USB Computer Speakers are good, around $400.00. If you need 5.0 surround the Klipsch ProMedia Ultra 5.1 470 Watt Personal Audio Six-Piece Surround Sound Computer Speaker System is pretty good at about...

"There are no mistakes in the Tango; if you get tangled up you just Tango on." Great film!!!

Know what you want from your talent and crew. Be open to suggestions but YOU are the director and you have the final decision. Create a realistic schedule, everything is going to take longer than you think it will. Be flexable, problems will crop up that will require fast, creative...

I was in Manhattan for a meeting on Wed, 10/17 and had a heck of a time getting around Greenwich Village/Washington Square Park. After my meeting was over I wandered over to WSP to watch the goings-on. Had a nice long conversation with a couple of PAs after the initial "move along". The whole...

A $40.00 mic is going to be noisy, it's just the nature of the beast. You are not going to get the quality of mics costing 20 times as much. Also, the audio components of $250.00 camera are going to take a back seat to the visual components, so the audio preamps will be noisy as well. You get...

You should be able to trim audio bites in your video editing program. If you still feel that you need an audio editing program: Pro Tools Logic Cubase Digital Performer Peak Nuendo There is no way to eliminate music mixed in with audio tracks.

How much do you have budgeted? $250.00? $500.00? $1,000.00? Where will you be primarily shooting? Indoors? Outdoors? All of these details will help us help you to make a decision.

I am a sound designer/audio post production engineer and I agree with Adrian; SOUND itself is an underestimated and greatly misunderstood part of the film making process, almost completely ignored by most young filmmakers. They're so damned excited about getting a camera in their hands that...

I do audio post production/sound design. I'm located in the NY Tristate area, and yet two of my best, and most fun, projects have been done via the internet and FedEx. One was a short that was shot in London, the director lives and edited in L.A. and the composer was in Boston; I never met...

To leave, or not to leave, That is the question. You haven't mentioned what you do. Act? Direct? Technical/Crafts? What are you leaving? To what are you going? Where else can your talents be marketed and utilized? L.A. may be the center of the industry, but the competition is fierce and...

I'm "just" a sound guy, both production and post production, but I have worked outdoor night shoots where large numbers of reflectors were used to focus the ambient light available. A couple of times the "ambient" light was headlights or powerful flashlights. As for shooting "Mit Out Sound"...

Are you already experienced at those trades outside of the film industry? Competition is fierce so you have to be much more than competant and very, very fast. There is no on-the-job training, even interns are very experienced these days. You should also have a solid understanding of the film...

Book larnin' is all well and good, but like DM I had a very strong base of real world experience before I went back to school. Go do some freebee work on student shorts, find an internship, pick up a $200.00 camcorder and FCP Lite for $300.00 and get started. The best learning is hands-on, no...

You're going to have to adjust the gain on the receivers of each wireless set. Remember that there are limits to the distance the receiver can be from the transmitter, and that police bands and other kinds of radio transmitters can interfere with reception. Also, you will probably have much...

Wireless systems require each mic to have a transmitter and a receiver tuned to the same channel. Each mic/trans/rcvr set has to be tuned to a different channel so that when the audio output of the receivers are connected to the audio inputs of the mixer the volume of each mic can be controlled...

Instead of saying "I want to work in film" or "I want to work in television" you should be thinking "I want to work in visual media". I'm a former touring and studio musician who, after arthritis curtailed my career as a performer, switched over to audio engineering and then into audio post...

The basics are great documentation and a clapboard or slate. Despite all of the technology available to us nothing beats a great pair of eyes and ears. The editor syncing the dailies finds the take and the corresponding audio from the documentation and lines up the audio SMACK with the...

That's a lot to put on my shoulders. If you want some recommendations I did a little research and this is the package that I came up with: Azden SGM-1X - Super-Cardioid Shotgun Condenser Microphone, about $150.00. I've never used it but have had good experiences with their very high end...