Cell Phone Buzz In Footage!?

[xep5k]

I was going through some footage in premier and noticed that durring one of my shoots, that wierd sound like where your next to a speaker and you have a cell phone and it get all buzzy sounding.. and it was on the tape?! it ruind my shot for the day... so
has anyone had the same thing happen to them? and if so how do you prevent this.? turn off all the cell phones on set?


Thank you!!


-Martin

 

[Zack Birlew]

LOL!

My friend ran into this problem during a film he made for our college's film contest! His story called for the phone to ring at a certain moment and he used his cell phone to do this, unfortunately, he was the camera man and he did it while shooting. Our joke about it was that "time was bending" because the story had to do with deja vu and "Groundhog's Day"-esque time travel. Sorry to hear that happened dude, no way to get rid of it other than ADR or reshooting the scene . I tried my best in post, because my brother and I edited it for him, but I couldn't get rid of it with out messing up the movie.

But yeah, turn off your cell phones when you're close to the camera, if you need to, have someone call from outside of where you're shooting or well enough away so that you don't get interference. Try doing tests before shooting the scene so that you can find where the cell phone(s) won't be a problem. If you need one in a scene, add the phone ring in post or ask some audio pro how they do it for the big-budget movies.