Find out where your nearest pro sound rental / sales house is and take your camera down there and chum up the sales people and make them drag out all their stuff and try it out with your camera. A rental house may be willing to sell something out of its inventory. Take notes. Find what works. If it's not in your price range new, then find it used later.
Regarding chopping knives and other similar stuff - just don't talk over that part. Fix the loud chopping (adjust levels) in post. Record the voice over after or before the cutting and then put the recorded voice over the synched cutting shot. Lots of variations on that theme. Jan On 1/11/07, J. Rhett Aultman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There are some wonderful starter light sets available on Amazon. I > bought this one: > > http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000AJB80/102-4970784-2736168 > > For the price, it's amazing. 1250W is great for many applications. If > you want to see us using the new light kit to make the "endless white > void" background, you can see our Vloggy acceptance speech video at > http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime/?p=22 > > As for mics, my cheap ones came from eBay...they're all off-brand. YMMV. > > -- > Rhett. > http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime > > Ben Zelevansky wrote: > > >Hey guys-- > > > >Any thoughts on a good (and cheap) lav mic and light kit for a new > >video blog? Just lighting and mic'ing one stationary person, and > >looking to keep it in the $200 range, if at all possible. It'd be > >great to be able to plug the mic right into the mini-jack on my dv > >camera, without having to mess with an additional mixer. > > > >You know, I never had to worry about this stuff working with cartoon > >animals... > > > >Thanks! > > > >Ben > > > > > > > > > -- The Faux Press - better than real http://fauxpress.blogspot.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
