audio in interviews

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Math

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Hi guys, i planining to shoot a documentary soon, my question is, how do i record the interviewee's voice only without hearing my own voice asking questions?
 
And eliminate all bkgr noise that will make the cuts obvious.

Then you'll have to decide how to cover jumps in the video. People don't sit absolutely still. You can do a quick dissolve between shots or cut away to something like the guy's hands (can look kinda hokey, though).

Of course, even when you tell people that you want stand-alone answers, they sometimes forget.
 
yes, remind the interviewee to start his/her answer with the question.

use a lavalier mic. it will pick you up still, but no mic won't.. unless you're in the next room.. :)

get room tone..
 
Math said:
Hi guys, i planining to shoot a documentary soon, my question is, how do i record the interviewee's voice only without hearing my own voice asking questions?
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Or you could get a person to be in front of the camera and ask the questions. Two chairs, back and forth. Reactions shots of the interviewee's dialogue.

Another oprion is for the cutaways to be related to the discussion. For example, if he is talking about the average wingspan of a swallow you cut to a clip of a swallow flapping it's wings in super slo-mo (or a clip from Monty Python). Then you cut back to the next answer.
 
Don't forget the bouncing ball that follows the words in the subtitles.

And

When he says the last word before your next question you could pull a Pee Wee's Playhouse on him and say that was the secret word. Instant cut away.
 
timapter said:
and i'll take minutes.
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Sucka! I'll take hours. Hours trumps minutes.

And before someone else tries to trump me, I'll take days, months, years, decades, millenia, all the way to inifnity+1.
 
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