Audio recording on Greyhound bus

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Jeff Deveraux

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Okay, boys and girls. Please bear with my nub Q's as I am a camera geek and have been out of the audio loop (no pun intended) for about 15 years:crybaby:
I am going to be shooting a project on a bus. We most likely will ADR our dialog, but I wonder if there are any new location audio tricks out there that have come about.

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if you drag the bus whith external viecle you can record almost freely inside , exept the shots you see the front window .also you can place the generator on that track as well
the mics inside is more about your camera position and number of charackters
not abig deal , just abudget
 
Thanks Oleg
I mentioned that to the prod manager. Too costly. A genny is not a concern as we are probably going either with 12v lights or inverter to AC. It's the bus engine that's a problem and of course they want to shoot at the back of the bus.
 
dont know about the movie , but alleast ask for clothes which could bring the lavaliers as close as possible
then on close ups go with directional from bellow
also try to check where are you going to make it as if the buss go up the hills in SF you will get alot of **** from the engine
 
downhill or flat terrain is best, use lavs that are as isolated at possible (B6 is pretty good). ensure all windows are CLOSED.

just did a LOT of shooting on a bus, but for reality where quality is not as paramount. but it sounded suprisingly good with lavs, even with engine running!
 
probably will have to use wireless lavs, might also want to consider some reinforcement with boundary mics like the Sanken CUB-01 which is used all the time in production for car scenes. a bus is a much larger space to deal with, for sure, but a hard-wired CUB-01, placed by the actors, with cable hidden out of sight going back to the mixer will probably yield a better sound quality than lavs which generally cannot create as natural a soundfield.
 
just saw "Greyhound" in the title... well... i'll just retreat into my corner now... and record some annoying customers with my CUB-01 :)
 
I directed an entire short film on a bus. My sound guy boomed talent for dialog and the script called for a lot of VO anyway. I'd be happy to talk to you about the challenges of shooting on a moving bus and give you a link to the short film. It's 10 minutes. I had a phenominal post audio engineer who created all of the bus sounds, outdoor street noise as well as mixing in the dialog with VO records. We had planned this all out ahead of time. A generator was not a realistic option for me either and I used Kinos that were powered off of marine cell batteries. Again, I can give you more info if you'd like. PM me if you'd like to discuss any of it. Good luck.
 
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