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alright so we're inside of Topa

Topa now in the brewery

and we know we're gonna be shooting stuff here

and I always like to scout a location

before we're going to shoot

especially if it's local

so make sure that's in your budget

that you can get at least the producer

director to scout the location

ideally the DP as well

and if you can

get the sound recorders to come out with you

and even if you can only come out for

two or three hours to walk to space

and get a sense of it

then that's gonna help tremendously

in terms of deciding

first of all

if you can shoot in a location from a sound perspective

and I'll talk to you about that in a minute

and also visually

where you might have your setups

in an ideal situation

you'd have a full day

to do your scout

so you could actually come to the location

and look at the location at different times of day

that's gonna tell you a lot of stuff in terms of

where the sun is

it's also gonna tell you

how it bounces off of different places in the space

and it's definitely gonna tell

you what happens from an audio standpoint

in the morning

afternoon and evening

when you might be shooting in that

space so um

let's first talk about the camera

and of course

is a lighting course

but we need to talk about some of these things

cause they're important

the camera we're using is the C100 Mark 2

it's actually a great

scouting camera with something like a 20

four to 1:05 lens on it

but if you have a mirrorless camera

just try to get something with a similar focal range

or even a DSLR

those work great for scouting cameras

and the beautiful thing is that if

you're using something like a mirrorless um

camera that also does stills or a DSLR

you can take still shots for reference

and you can also take video

but it's I mean

that we have access to all the stuff

we might as well use it

from an audio standpoint

what I like to do is I like to

bring two microphones

especially if I don't have a sound recorder

who will just walk into the space and know

I have this mic right here

which is called the smartlove plus

it's made by road

it's a little lavalier mic

and what's awesome about it

is that it plugs directly into

a smartphone

and it can be an iOS device

an Android device

they have their own

app that you can use to record to it

but you can use another audio recording app if you want

and this is gonna give you a pretty good sense of what

the audio is gonna be like if you record to a lavalier

and then I also bring

on almost every Scout

and these things are in my bag

all the time anyway

it's just sort of backups

I have this Road Video Micro

and it'll play as a shotgun mic

will use a better quality one

usually in production

but what's cool about it is

if you put it on one of these nano stands

and you put a little ball head on it

you can position it where you need it to be

to get a good sense

of what's gonna be your audio

if you're using a boomed mic

something like a shotgun mic

so this is actually

attached to an extension

cable that's plugged into the camera

I can get it away from the camera

because I'm not a big fan of a camera

mounted microphone

I wanna get that microphone as close as possible

and in a space like this

where I know we're gonna have some audio issues

I wanna know what that audio is gonna sound like

when it's as close to the person as possible

a lot of people will use an on camera mic

that's not really realistic

unless you're doing Eng stuff

so we wanna make sure that we're

getting a sense of what

the audio is gonna be like in a real

environment

when we are doing production

and I'm not saying that

Eng is not real production

but when we're shooting interviews

and doing this type of work

we're generally using a lavalier

a boom mic or

combination of both

so we got our basic

scouting equipment

I'm gonna go find Greg

we're gonna walk through

all of these spaces

we're gonna figure out where we're gonna shoot

all of these interviews

and then I can break down all of that stuff for you

so you can see

how we go about solving

all of the problems that we encounter

and you can see exactly

how we light

each of these setups

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