Shooting/interviewing at a convention -best setup?

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I'll be at E3 in LA this year conducting several interviews with people. The convention is loud and noisy. Would it be best to use a boom mic? shot gun mic? or a wireless mic on the person being interviewed? or which combination should work best? Any recomendations on a good mic for this?

thanks!
 
Re: Shooting/interviewing at a convention -best se

Re: Shooting/interviewing at a convention -best se

Are these walk and talk interviews or sit down interviews? It sounds like your best bet is to use an Electrovoice RE50 hand held mic with a plug on tx. It's a dynamic mic, so you won't get all the hub-bub of the convention getting into your sound.

-Dave
 
Re: Shooting/interviewing at a convention -best se

Re: Shooting/interviewing at a convention -best se

well, it might be a mixture of both stand up and sit down, but this has the goal of becoming a documentary, and a big bulky mic isn't something i often see in docs.
 
Re: Shooting/interviewing at a convention -best se

Re: Shooting/interviewing at a convention -best se

But it'll work well. I just shot the Shot Show, doing similar type interviews (but with an on-camera interviewer) and we used a dynamic mic with a plug-in wireless transmitter. It worked reasonably well.
 
Re: Shooting/interviewing at a convention -best se

Re: Shooting/interviewing at a convention -best se

i'd probably go with a lav.

is it a two shot where the question asker will be standing side by side with the interviewee?

in that case have the questioner use a handheld and the interviewee a lav.

plus you can put a snazzy mic flag on the handheld with the logo for the documentary!

matthew
 
Re: Shooting/interviewing at a convention -best se

Re: Shooting/interviewing at a convention -best se

i'm sorry that i'm an audio n00b, what's a lav?
 
Re: Shooting/interviewing at a convention -best se

Re: Shooting/interviewing at a convention -best se

heh, also, on a previous thread i was told i'd need to drop $2000+ on audio equipment for proper sound, how acurate is this? and what will i need?
 
Re: Shooting/interviewing at a convention -best se

Re: Shooting/interviewing at a convention -best se

All depends on the kind of lavaliere you're using. If you're using an omnidirectional, you'll probably be swamped with background noise. You'd have to use something like a highly directional hypercardioid lav, and with something like that, placement is *crucial* to getting acceptable quality sound. And, you'll have to make sure the interviewee doesn't turn their head much, etc.

How tight are these shots? If it's a "60 Minutes" type of interview, a reasonably tight head shot, you can still use the dynamic mic, just out of frame. It'll probably work fine. Otherwise, you could get a talented boom operator to follow you around and get an overhead mic right on 'em... heck, have 'em hang the dynamic mic from the boompole, that'd work...
 
Re: Shooting/interviewing at a convention -best se

Re: Shooting/interviewing at a convention -best se

bring the sennheiser 816 or neumann 82 , that can do a job
 
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