For man on the street inteviews, should I use a lav or handheld mic?

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oxband

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I'm shooting an event tomorrow and going to be interviewing random people attending it. I want two tracks of audio. One is going to be a camera mounted shotgun. For the other, I'm contemplating either asking people to attach a lav to themselves or giving them a handheld mic.

The lav will get better sound since the person wont be moving it around. But it'll take time and turn some people off to ask them to put the mic on under their clothes. The handheld is easier but if they wave it around, the sound wont be good.

Thoughts?
 
Handheld. But, don't give it to them; you hold it for them newsman style. That is fairly standard for any random street style interviews (think of red-carpet tv interviews - the interviewer just holds the mic up to the person).
 
I'v done that with handheld mic and it worked great. Had on camera shotgun but it picked up to much noise so the handheld ended up being used 100%
 
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