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Always record sound!!!

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Nat sound Natural sound helps with action and reaction

Natural sound can help grab the viewers attention Natural sound can act like an adverb

Natural sound can act like punctuation Natural sound at the beginning of reporter track or

sound bites can help change location Natural sound, reinforces soundbite

Natural sound can help with the rhythm of a story Natural sound should be relevant to the story

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Did you ever see MacGyver?

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With his knife, some bubble gum and duct tape, he could fashion weapons, build flying machines and repair almost anything -- all this, just in time to thwart the bad guys and save the damsel in distress.

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You have a valuable too also.

It’s nat sound.

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Natural sound is often d ignored by many video editors, but it works great covering tough edits and creating a real sense of space. Natural sound can save the day just like our intrepid hero.

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Connective Tissue

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Audio For example, you’re your shooting a short film and it calls for a conversation between two of the lead actors, sitting over a running creek on

a low-water bridge. It's a wooded area and there are plenty of birds and insects chirping in the background. As nice as the setting is, the water running beneath the actor's feet is impossibly loud and completely masking all

but the loudest of dialog.

Audio Shoot the scene wide to establish the location, then move the actors away from the noise to shoot the close-ups. After the shoot, record several minutes of the environment.

Why?

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but all the dialog uses the medium and close shots

from the quieter location. After cutting the scene together,

drop the natural sound recording into the mix to

re-create the environment you loose at the new location.

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It's easy to record natural sound from your locations.

simply roll a minute or two of tape to capture the audio environment

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you can use the same mics the talent will use, or use the stereo microphone in your camcorder.

Make sure it is the same sound!!!

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If you don’t have natural sound it will seem odd.