Location Audio Simplified: Capturing Your Audio... and Your Audience

English | Publisher: Focal, 2015 | PDF | 246 pages | 6 MB
From the basics of using camera, handheld, lavalier, and shotgun microphones to camera calibration and mixer set-ups, Location Audio Simplified unlocks the secrets to clean and clear broadcast quality audio no matter what challenges you face. Author Dean Miles applies his twenty-plus years of experience as a professional location operator to teach the skills, techniques, tips, and secrets needed to produce high-quality production sound on location.

Humorous and thoroughly practical, the book covers a wide array of topics, such as:
- location selection
- field mixing
- booming techniques
- using different kinds of microphones (including wireless systems) and booming
- camera calibration, interview techniques, and much more

Learn the secrets of a real-world professional with easy-to-follow, non-technical tips and techniques that you can apply in the field on your own projects immediately.