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Mike Hughes
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A place to learn about video production techniques.
Intro To Digital Video Course
This video will introduce you to my new, 12 lesson course at www.curious.com.
The course includes more than 3 hours of instructional video on what you need to know to create professional looking videos.
Instruction includes lessons on professional and consumer cameras, lighting, audio equipment, planning & scripting, staging the shoot, interview techniques and post production editing.
This course is great for amateur videographers, those making videos for RUclips or film festivals and those who want to get into the film making industry.
The course includes more than 3 hours of instructional video on what you need to know to create professional looking videos.
Instruction includes lessons on professional and consumer cameras, lighting, audio equipment, planning & scripting, staging the shoot, interview techniques and post production editing.
This course is great for amateur videographers, those making videos for RUclips or film festivals and those who want to get into the film making industry.
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Final Cut Pro Walkthrough - Part 2
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Creating a simple edit in Apple's Final Cut Pro.
Final Cut Pro Walkthrough - Part 1
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A brief description of the interface and functions of Apple's Final Cut Pro X.
Quick Tips For Video - Boom Mic. Techniques.mov
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This video demonstrates how to use a boom microphone properly.
Digital Filmmaking for Beginners
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A short video extolling the virtues of my book, "Digital Filmmaking for Beginners: A Practical Guide to Video Prodution". A McGraw Hill Publication.
QuickTips for Video
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This video demonstrates how to run a set or location in an efficient and professional manner.
Quick Tips for Video - Shooting the 2 Person Interview With One Camera
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This video demonstrates how to shoot a two person interview with one camera so that the final result will look like it was shot with three cameras simultaneously.
Quick Tips for Video - Steadying the Hand-Held Shot
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This video demonstrates how to steady the hand-held shot
Quick Tips for Video - Six Steps to Follow when Setting Up Your Camera
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This video demonstrates six things you should do while setting up your am era for a video shoot.
😂 wtf
This was 10 years ago!? Jesus. I honestly thought it was a parody. If I delivered anything like this I'd never work again. If anyone is looking at for advice now, please ignore it. Look at the background, the lighting, the edit, the plant, the insanely cold camera operator etc.
hahaha... the audio at the end.
Outstanding
This video helped me,Thanks
Between Two Fellows
Between One Fern
Very helpful, thanks
Glad you like it. Hope it works for you. It's worked many times for me.
I have multiple cameras but this helps. thanks.
Thank you so much - For my school Project i want to do the same interview like yours - thank you so much for this detailed statement
Thank you bro. Iam very happy. Super .....thank God.
Thankyou bro. Thank god.
Great technique. Thanks for sharing! 😀
What is a good software to use for editing videos?
I am planning on conducting an interview. The location will be in the interviewee's office. Would it look unprofessional to only have 2 shots (the 2-person view and the interviewee view)? I do not want to inconvenience the interviewee with a shot of me doing the 're-ask.' Is it just a matter of preference?
You could put your second camera slightly 3/4 behind the person you're interviewing so you can see part of his/her face with the interviewer mostly toward the camera. That way you can have a two shot when the frame is wide and a closeup when zoomed into the interviewer.
WTF!!! Why don't you just use a lavalier dude!!?
You might not want to see the mic. Hiding a lav under the clothes might make noise or muffling the sound. Most production companies use a boom mic when a lav is not the best choice.
From experience I've noticed that broadcastey terms like "Action" and "Cut" only make interviewees nervous by constantly reminding them that they *are* being filmed. Such terms are necessary with big casts, multiple actors, props, lighting, stage hands etc. But with nice intimate interviews such as this one, most of the time the interviewees are ordinary people, experts only on their own subject, and will not be at all used to being filmed. I found we had much better results of keeping them comfortable and their flow natural by adopting a much less-formal 'relationship' with them. Simply using the word "Okay..." or "Okay, and..." (gesture subtly with index finger) reduced their anxiety considerably and they always quickly realise that you mean for them to stop or to begin "action"! Saying things like "moving camera" is totally unnecessary in such an intimate context, and again only draws their attention to them being filmed. Other times for particularly nervous individuals, we would prep our interviewer to just begin a conversation, and with simple eye contact and discrete facial gestures, our interviewer would simply flow into the topic and specific questions without the interviewee noticing that they were in fact, being recorded at that time. After a while they would completely forget, they become far more natural, more vibrant and passionate in their answers, the rapport between interview and guest came to life, and it made for FAR MORE compelling viewing complete with all the specific info. we needed answering; simply because the person being interviewed had become truly relaxed. Hope this is of help to anyone.
''Get out of the shot, man. GET OUT OF THE SHOT,-''
This quite helped me for a school thingy :p
Thank you Mike...
wow this is a great idea!
thanks buddy
Excellent information. I got an A on my interview project thanks to you!
Glad it helped. It really is a good formula for that type of interview. Congrats on your A.
Good stuff. I have a question regarding the audio set up. I saw two receivers on the camera. How are you recording that audio? I am trying to figure out a way to do that but I am struggling on the solution.
The 2 receivers were for each of the two wireless mics. One in Channel 1 and one into channel 2 of the two inputs into the camera. If your camera has only one input you must use a mixer to mix them both into one signal.
Solid advice, just what I was looking for!
Good Job Mike I was trying to find bad examples for operators and came across this and thought I would comment because there are so many bad techniques going on with ops. My pet peeve is the shoulder hold or shoulder boom mount position.
Nice work! It occurs that the re-ask and reactions could be shot while interviewer is listening to the recently recorded audio from the interviewee-acting and response might feel more natural? All in all, I'm renting camera 2 for important dates.
If you have 2 cameras it's much easier, but many interviews use this 1 camera shooting. 2 cameras are not only more expensive you'll also need to hire an extra operator (unless a locked-off camera works for you). Playing back an audio channel would be done from the guest camera I assume. But we usually have the questions written down ahead of the interview so the host can just re-ask from a script. An off-camera production assistant could take notes of changes and ad-lib questions for the re-ask shoot. Easier than having extra audio getting int he way of your re-ask shoot. If you can afford two cameras then certainly go for it. It makes the shoot much quicker - especially for the editor.
Thank you for the tip. Can be really helpful when using one camera.
That was so frickin' awesome. Thanks for this. I was wondering if this was possible. ^_^
I don't trust any boom operators who aren't named Mike
Whew!! Good thing my name is Mike.
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amazing , thank you
You know I looked this up worrying that I didn't know how to hold a boom mic, since I'm doubling as boom guy in our next short film. Having watched it I realised in fact I did know all this, but thanks for the confirmation anyway. I feel a whole lot better now.
This video is very helpful! Thanks!
This concept sucks because you have to keep stopping.
I used this technique dozens of times when I worked in television and hundreds of times since. How else would you shoot an interview and have the finished project look like it was shot with multiple cameras? If you have a more efficient way of doing it please be helpful and share it.
two cameras
It's not really that much stopping, according to me, given ure using 1 cam. Quite efficient in that you do the intro n extro in 1 shot. Then u do all the interviewee responses and then the interviewer asking and nooding. So total of 3 shots. If u were shooting like a film or smin, this wud be nothing in comparison, I think. If you can afford 2 of the same quality though, then that is more efficient obviously. This is intended for those with limitations in that regard. :)
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What's the best audio set up for a two person interview?
Probably to put a wireless lapel mic. on each. Or, you could use a shotgun on a mic. stand - right down the middle from about 5 feet away - low enough to be out of the camera's wide shot. Unless, of course the interviewer waves a hand mic. back and forth. I prefer the lapel mics option.
+Russ Tanner I have 3 ZOOM H1 and 3 lap mic, so I connect on each guess one lav-mic with a ZOOM H1...Then I load and fix everything in post, that way you wont worry about losing signal
So bad you fail at editing never make another video.
Thank you, very helpful! Good to know I can put the mic under me as well.
Would Cotton work to make a Boom Mic or sound proofing with a plastic bin ?
So great tips!! I really like it
Glad you like it. Hope it's of use.
If you watch the person's shadow and your mic shadow while booming them you can inch your way in so that you don't make contact with the person. The name of the game is to get as close as you can without coming into frame or shadowing the actor. You also need to be on-mic, so watch the actors too.
A Big cuestion for me is ¿how to manage properly the cable?, ¿how to roll it just to get a good sound? beause is too large
I've seen it spiralled around the pole, tight enough not to wiggle and bang against the pole, but loose enough to allow for some adjustment of the mic.
Buy or rent a fish pole that is cabled internally. Where it comes out of the bottom, position the hole downward, but slightly tilted to the side and place your middle finger on the cable touching lightly, but just enough to keep it in place. That way it won't make any noise.
ummm. yea. what about when there is more than one questions. uuuuuuuh
Ah you mean like a follow-up question. Hmm... Then this technique would be difficult to employ. Will require acting frm both the interviewee and interviewer, at least.
I believe we had more than one question in the example given. The only "acting" is on the interviewer's re-asks. He pretends to look at the interviewee (who might have left by then) and re-askes the same questions. Watch it again.
When we see the interviewer while the interviewee is talking it usually comes from the "re-ask" reel. This video shows the interviewer asking each question (the interviewee may be long gone by then) and then several sconds of nodding, smiling or just looking in the direction of where he interviewee was. So, when you cut to the interviewer during the interview it's using he re-ask reel.
Yep. :)
I have a question! what do you call that technique when the interviewee are talking but the video shows the interviewer instead? thank you in advance.
It's a cut-in. A cut-in is a cut to another person or object that's in the same location. A cut-away (another type of shot) is when we go to a shot from another location that relates to what the interviewee is talking about.
+Mike Hughes That really useful info. Put in a simple way. Thank you. ^_^
boom mics and poles are nice and all BUT what is the best way of attaching the darn wire?! that is, without making it so slight bumps translate into audible thumps in the audio?
Most often you can wind the cable around the boom pole - leaving enough slack at the mic. end so you can adjust the mic. angle. Then the operator has to be careful to hold the pole tightly so as not to make sounds.
Watching the shadow is a pretty cool trick. I would never have thought of that but see it being really helpful.
Ironically, the narrator - uh expert's? audio level is distorted and the overall audio mix of this tutorial is uneven. Does DAZ 3D only have let you design sexed up women images for talent?
I wouldn't call her "sexed up". Just attractive and nicely dressed. Like many TV hosts. In order to make her look old or unattractive I would have had to apply morphs to the figure - and I didn't want to bother. Think of this as an illustration using a mannequin.
Shouldn't the mic be 90 degrees to the floor rather than on an angle?
If you did 90° to the floor you'd have to have the mic. right over the subjects head which would muffle the sound. A couple of feet in front of the subject and angled to pointed at their mouth is best.
The pickup for the mic is in it's end. If you put it right over the performer pointing down you're trying to pick up their voice through the top of their head. If it's pointing down, but a foot or so in front of them you might get sound reflection from the floor. Out a few feet and pointing at their mouth is best.
90 degrees is a bad call. Different angles for different mics and different shooting conditions, rooms, airplanes flying over head, reflective surfaces, etc etc. You boom people differently depending on which microphone you choose. If you're looking for a general rule, out in front, about 25 degree angle pointed at their chin/chest aught to give you some leeway when the actor makes a quick head turn.
+Guy Richardson If you try and aim for the actors sternum you tend to catch the vocal frequencies at the optimum point, if you point right at the actors mouth you can pick up distortion on the consonants, if your pointing at the floor you can muffle the audio
Thanks for your comments, Scarlet. Very helpfull.
Really helpful information here...thank you for posting.
Thanks for your time to edit and post. Boom pole shadow points well taken. Dazzle 3 d looks good, too.