How to record BETTER audio for your films

So you want to record better audio? Let’s talk about that.

To record the best audio your mic should be no more than3 feet away from your talent. It doesn’t matter what type of mic it is; lavaliere, shot gun mic, doesn’t matter.  Often times we find ourselves in situations where getting our mics within 3 feet of our actors becomes very difficult.

A few tips…

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Why we don’t need another Quenton Tarantino

You’ve already seen the title of this post. You have an idea where this is going.

I see a lot of films and read a lot of scripts. one of the most common things that I run into is filmmakers mimicking other filmmakers is especially Quinton Tarantino.  The extended dialogue scenes, the golorification of gore, the non linear story telling, pretty much everything that you can mimick about him.

Some of these imitations are quite good but at a certain point we as an audience lose intereste because we’ve already seen this before. Watch the video to see the full discussion.