Does kissing up and brown-nosing work?

Im limited on money, all. I've made that clear. I would kill for a job, but I reside in North Carolina, but lived in Canada. Im workin on a Green Card, but dont have one, meaning any kind of job is illegal.

Though when I go to Canada, I CAN get a job... now I'm onto something.

Jack Daniel Stanley, that is a very nice post. I really appreciate it. I've had a "quitcherbitchin" pistol pointed at me for a while, and this thread has pulled the trigger.

Im still alive, dont worry, but now with a kind of renewed sense of "hope", but not in a melodramatic way. I will look into that mic and recorder. It looks good, though I'm curious how much time it will hold. Also, I think I've seen that kind of recorder, but with an SD Card slot. Maybe that way I can store more than just a gig. I'm building a dolly (in the cinematography section at the moment, there is more detail, and I will post some pictures later), and soon, I going to get a bunch of people I know who want to make a movie and get them to pitch in to pay for the sound equipment. Watch out folks, my movie is gonna "rock" though it will be a while. I threw out my old 120 page script. I didnt like it- not real enough.
 
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Right I forgot you are both underage and illegal.

So that still leaves 4 fundraising methods in my post.

Also, coulnd't you go back to canada for a month and work in a McDonalds there. If your family has moved to North Carolina, then could you sleep on a friends couch in canada and work for a month? How bad do you actually want to do this?

... if you REALY want to be a filmmaker ... $400 doesn't seem like a huge obstacle for someone who's earned, or gift, or begged for income is ENTIRELY dissposable.

in fact, it pales in comparrison to the many obstacles that filmmaking will throw at you.

If you can't find $400 with no rent to pay, no bills to pay, no expenses ... then ... I don't know what to say ...
 
Oh trust me, I've been job seaching in for places in Canada for a while now. And I do have a place to stay. And I did acknowledge your 4 other fundraising methods.

I told you, man, I learned a lesson. I also lengthened my last post, in case you didnt see it.
 
No I didn't see the lengthened post til now.

I think you can record about as long as a DV tape on that recorder since a CD is 45 minutes on 750 mb, seems like you'd get about an hour out of 1gig.

An hour = one mini DV cassette and its rare that I will shoot more than an hour of footage in a day.

If you think you will then you just need a way to offload the sound you've recorded just like working with p2 cards and an HVX.

If you have a laptop then you are all set. Just copy the sound files over to the laptop on location MAKE SURE YOU HAVE IT COPIED AND CAN ACCESS THE FILE, then erase the iRiver. THe iRiver, which I think came out in the UK first has been an indie tool for a while there, but hasn't caught on here. It's basically a mini ipod but with a 16bit sound input jack so you can make mp3's right from an old turntable or what have you.

If you can find and extra $150, you'll find a big jump in the $250 mics from the $100 I listed, but teh $100 will surprise you with the results you get, especially compared to your in camera mic.
 
that's a tough one ...

but for narrative film its rare that you would shoot an hour of footage in 4 hours say
, especially with one camera (which is actually best for a number of reasons).

So worst case scenario, you could take a break if you needed and drive home and dump it on your computer. It's not like you'll be doing that every hour. More than likely you wouldn't need to do it more than once a day, if that.

Might be a good chance if you are working with 5 or six people that one of them might have a laptop.
 
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Ok .... this as ghetto as it gets (for "good" sound anyway)

iRiver T30 $149 = 1gig, $99 = 512mb
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You will also need a shock mount
Azden SMH-1 $29
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Dr. Jack,

Please dish on how this setup works with the camera. Do you gather the sound and attempt to line it up in post or does this recorder allow it to line up with it. Or does digital recorder and digital video = perfectly same timing always?

Does the iRiver tie into the camera or is it separate? Do you simply plug the boom mic into the iRiver? Please "dish" because in all honesty this does sound almost too good to be true.

Thanks,
 
Yeah you just run to the iriver. You just need an XLR to mini plug adaptor and make sure your mic does not require phantom power. But yes you just use it like a DAT machine or MiniDisk or the old Nauga analog decksa and sync it in post.

However, it doesn't really have an advantage to recording direct to camera other than you could have an indpendently mobile person dedicated to sound. The sampling rate that the camera records at is slightly higher. So if you have a camera with a mic input then that would be better.

The above is for folks with cameras with no mic input or for people who want to record sound the "real movie way" i.e. on a seperate sytem than the video.
 
Jack Daniel Stanley said:
Yeah you just run to the iriver. You just need an XLR to mini plug adaptor and make sure your mic does not require phantom power. But yes you just use it like a DAT machine or MiniDisk or the old Nauga analog decksa and sync it in post.

However, it doesn't really have an advantage to recording direct to camera other than you could have an indpendently mobile person dedicated to sound. The sampling rate that the camera records at is slightly higher. So if you have a camera with a mic input then that would be better.

The above is for folks with cameras with no mic input or for people who want to record sound the "real movie way" i.e. on a seperate sytem than the video.
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Ah, so if you have line-in capability then this is not needed, just a good snake cord and this becomes superfluous. I am looking for a low budget setup and in all honesty I think that I am torn between which camera (SD / HD, ugh), let alone getting into the mic/light/ect arguments. Ugh. Alot to learn. Anyways, thanks for input but I doubt I would need a separate recorder seeing as how any/all cameras I would buy would have the mic inputs and I would get a snake setup with the boom pole and shock mount.

Thanks again,
 
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