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Evil has Ears
timapter said:
Exactly. If this shoot is at all serious then there is little excuse for making a best faith effort for getting good sound. It's like giving up and switching to auto focus because you're too busy with other things to bother. If you are serious about what you are doing you at least try and get the audio right. If the budget is tight, get an intern.
At the end of the day, excuses for why your audio sucks ("Well we use an on-camera mic so please excuse the poor audio") doesn't fix your production and your product and name suffers.
I am not trying to be harsh but there is a persistent mythology of this on-camera mic thing that needs to be debunked. On-camera mic will pick up ambient, a guide track, and might get decent audio if you are directly 2 to 3 feet in front of the subject facing camera in a quiet environment. Everything else is junk.
To put it another way, "no choice" is a state of mind. If you valued your sound as much as the picture you would find a way to get someone responsible for it.
It's your choice but I am simple saying this in spirit of helping you not to have regrets at the end of the day.
Good luck
