A Beginner's Guide to Using Lav Mics Analysis

   Recording for a project takes the right tools, especially when it comes to audio. There are many types of audio recorders for instance, boom mic, shotgun mic, just plain ol' camera mic that in the camera itself. Then there is a lavaliere mic.
   A lavaliere mic is a mic that is small, can be undetectable and can still record good audio even for its size. A lavaliere mic is Omnidirectional, meaning that it covers sounds from all angles/areas. They work no mater where you are pointing it at, as long as it is by the the persons fave. Of course putting further distance between the mouth and the mic or the persons head turning will lower the audio. To be perfectly hones, that was pretty obvious but anyways.. Lav mics come with a clip that can be used to hook onto cloths. The lav mic is a bit of an eye sore if you don't place it correctly. Most of the time the actor have the mic hidden within their cloths. For instance, if a guy is wearing a suit they can hide the wires in their shirt but hook the mic to the back of their tie. Another example would be for woman is that it can be hidden in between their bra. I don't know how to stress this properly, ask the actor if they would like to take care of the mic themselves, by god they're humans too. Luckily you don't have to have them wear the mic at all, if it is possible. you could hide the mic in a plant or behind something large enough to where it cant be seen.
   These mics are wireless but not in the way you might think. These mics are wireless in the fact that the receiver is not directly connected. There will be problems with this though, nothing substantial but you could possibly have the receiver muted by accident and that will cause problems down the road in editing.

4 Reasons to Use Match Cuts (and Why You Might Avoid Them)

Match Cuts are very useful at times in video productions. They can give off a change of scene (a bit obvious), time changing, symbolism, etc., etc. They have been used many times within the history of cinema. For instance, Stanley Kubrick's 2001 Space Odyssey. The scene where the first full evolution of man I guess you can say, killed another one of his kind and then throws the weapon into the air and when it descends back it cuts to a space station orbiting a planet ( the station was similar in shape to the weapon). It can work very well, if you know how to conduct the shots perfectly.
 As said before there are different types of match cuts, for instance:

1.) Symbolic leaps: As said before with the example of Space Odyssey's bone to station scene, that's a symbolic leap. the beginning of man to the exploration of space.

2.)Storytelling transitions: a basic summarization of through as two shots of what has happened through the time in the story.

3.)Wordless Commentaries: to be honest, I don't really know how to explain it.

4.)Pure Imaginative Explosions: It's like a comparison, you see an action happening but before the action happens you see something else doing an action looking similar to the original one

Weekly Comments

So, this past Monday was Halloween. It was actually good for once, but back to the idea of school. To truly start it off, I'm not too fond of this PSA (public service announcement). part of it is my fault and another is just because I'm not too font of using cameras. It's really just a personal preference.
I do not really have any links of interest except for this 3D short film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwn3Ru0o8Io
I know it's animation but it is still a good production