I got the call to do some car rigging for a feature film last fall. They wanted me to crawl into the trunk area of a taxi to monitor the audio while the cast were doing their lines inside the moving car. This use to be standard practice but its just not safe. I knew I needed a wireless monitoring system so I could do a … Continue reading Review: Signtek ST-200 FM Transmitter
Often on production sets you are seeing less and less booms and more wireless lavaliers. Wireless audio is getting cheaper and recorders now have more channels than ever to ISO record all these wires. While with less booms on set, its harder to capture the audio from the 2nd AC when he/she calls the slate at the beginning of each take. Well, that problem is … Continue reading Tutorial: Wireless Slate
For this tutorial we will be working with a dumb slate, though the principles will work with any acrylic surface. A dumb slate is called that because it doesn’t provide timecode to the camera. These are the acrylic slates that sell from $15-90 on Amazon and Filmtools. Don’t spend more than $20, they are all identical in build quality. I’ve had the $90 IKAN iPad … Continue reading Tutorial: Modifing a Film Slate for Location Sound
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