Importance of Sound in Video (5 Rules of Sound)

The most important aspect of digital video is sound. If your sound is fucked your overall project is fucked. So it is very important that we practice the "5 Sound Rules": (I have a DVD that we can watch that will help us out)

1. Get the mic as close as possible.
- A microphone should be as close as possible to the subject to get the best sound. That's why it's good to use a Shotgun mic or a mic with a grip. (The key is to get as close as you can without getting in the frame).

2. Always wear headphones.
-It's good to always wear headphones so you can determine the true quality of the sound you're recording. The little ipod headphones won't cut it either. We need those headphones that suction your ear from any outside sounds (professional headphones).

3. Monitor the Sound from your camera.
-Its always good to monitor you sound directly from your camera rather than through the mixer. The signal from your camera will be the signal you're actually editing. Always listen to the sound at its final recording destination.

4. Scout your location for sound issues
-This is very important because you should know what problems you're going to face before facing them.

5. Always record atmosphere or room tone.
- Always have shoot at least a minute of atmosphere sound to layover anything with inconsistencies. For example: if you have to re-record dialogue in studio but you want it to seem like you shot in on location the only thing that will make it sound realistic is that atmosphere sound laid on the track.



courtesy of Down and Dirty DV: Shut Up and Shoot

Costs and Xpenses (Fill in were you see necessary)

Production Equipment Needed:
Tripod: $400-$1200*
Lowel Light Kit: $1000
Shotgun Mic, Boom, Wireless and Accessories: $2000*
Filters, Gels and Misc. Accessories: $700
New Firewire Hard Drive: $250 (1TB)*
Stabilizer System: $500 - $1200
Total: Max $6350

*Very important to have before we start, to maintain a professional look and produce projects efficiently.



Video and Audio Production Equipment currently in the mediaXperience and Dopewater inventory: (Mal please feel free to fill in your equipment as well)
One (1)Panasonic DVX100B
Two (2) iMac’s
One (1) Macbook
Final Cut Express Software
Photoshop CS4
Final Draft (Script Software)
Business Plan Pro Software


Other Expenses to Consider: (Mal fill in where you see necessary)
Paying a Crew- $?
Food during shoots- $25/day- $100/day
Web Designer- $250 - $2000
Promotions and Marketing Material- $?
Patents and Trademarks- $?





Not necessary but additional Equipment Desired: (Mal fill in your desires too)
HD Digital Camera (that shoots video as well)
Final Cut Studio
Dolly

. Sports? . what u think?

I saw this video on Kumasi' blog some time ago and I thought it was tight how they shot the asketball player and made him look like a beast. How do you feel about us doing athletes? Short segments though. Not like a highlight tape but just showin them ballin and talkin about where they're from, why they do what they do, ect. BUt again showing everything as a artistic form.

check the video that made me think about this:

Air born daytona

"Air Born" The Kid Daytona feat. Bun B of UGK from Derek Pike on Vimeo.

"Thought": Add poetry to Arsenal

I wanted to note the idea I had the other day in regards to adding poets to our list of artist. I feel like Poetry is a dead art right now. Maybe I'm just not in the game looking for it but it seems like poetry was bigger when we were younger. But I think we should find poetry open mic spots in and around the city and talk to people.

Here are some spots that do open mic poetry:

Bus Boys and Poets: 14th and V St NW
Mocha Hut: 13 & U St NW
Artmosphere: 3311 Rhode Island Mt Rainier, MD
Sankofa: 2714 Georgia Ave NW
Bar Nun: 1326 U St NW


Here's Inspiration to support my idea of bringing in Poetry. (Keep in mind our shooting style is going to be more up close and personal. The editing is going to edgy to keep viewers interested):

Light skin Did



American Gangsta: 2 Deep

This Google Map to the right is totally wack, can you get rid of it?

Anyways...
Here's some quick ideas i wrote down just brainstorming...places we can go to film,people we can film, segments, etc:
-events
-artists
-music,film,game,tech review segment
-music videos (of the feaured artists of course...not Nelly and shit)
-short films
-skits
-tour different neighborhoods in dc, maybe do dc historical facts, or get one of the featured artists to tour us through their neighborhood
-interviews,profiles
-day in the life of....(whatever artist/person....
-a segment about men and being a man, im thinking about calling it the 'Man Minute'
-R.i.p segment
-round table panel discussions on whatever topic, hopefully we can find some insightful participants maybe use the featured artists who knows...
-black history segment
-i have this idea for this segment where we recreate that scene that they always do in 'that 70's show' where they've been smoking weed and its like all close ups but the smoke is in the back and the camera like swings from person to person. just gotta think about what the actors would be talking about
-studio sessions,recordings
-segment about producers or production,film,audio,music
-fresh cars, find people who have fresh cars in dc and do some good visual segments. like REAL fresh cars
-restaurants and differnt spots to eat in the area and do a review

Peace!

fuck your blog nigga!

Tryna test this thing from my phone. I think ugotta pick edit html. i been comin up with some ideas. This shit is gonne be great. Will update when i get home cuzzin. Peace

WELCOME

This blogspot has been created as a digital post for all of our ideas as things begin to develop. I added my playlist but we can create a DOPEWATER playlist soon and embed it on here so that we can have some music playing in the background to inspire our ideas.