mic setup for this wide shot?
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Here's the scenario. 2 actors, one sitting, the other standing and walking around the room. A fair amount of dialog during a wide shot where we see both characters. The sitting character is off to the side, so I found a shotgun mic captured his dialogue fine. The standing/walking character is moving around, and the camera is wide. Her dialog is a little low. But the shot was too wide for a mic on a boom. I was thinking I should have put a wireless mic on the standing character with the wireless on one channel put the shotgun mic on the other channel. Of course, I don't really know anything about mixing sound, so I'm not sure if that would really work. Wouldn't I need to somehow mix the two channels? |
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Your plan for the wide should be fine. Use Steve's suggestion and go to separate channels and leave the decision for post. When they go in for close-ups, you should be able to cover this with a boom, so encourage (suggest? whatever you can do) them to run the whole scene instead of just lines. It's pretty unusual to do an entire scene with important dialog in only a wide shot.
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Thanks. Yeah, the scene goes to closeups pretty quickly, but there's a couple lines that for stylistic reasons, I wanted to stay wide.
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