A wireless microphone with its accessory parts<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nIf you can’t afford a wireless, do yourself a favor and get an extension cord for your wired mic. The $25 jewel I bought at Radio Shack came with just a 6-foot cord. That’s a terrible pain when out shooting. I bought a 25-foot extension cable and my students loved it, assuming they could find it.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0term “wireless” microphone is a bit misleading, since it actually contains a lot of wires. Rather, a wireless microphone is one you don’t have to plug into the camera directly. So the person speaking on camera can be on the 50-yard-line of the football stadium and the camera can be in the press box.<\/p>\n
A wireless microphone is a combination of a microphone and a radio. It has two parts, a receiver and a transmitter. The microphone itself is attached to the transmitter and is worn by the person speaking. The microphone picks up the sound and sends it to the transmitter.<\/p>\n
The receiver portion of a wireless microphone is plugged into your camera. The transmitter sends it to the receiver.\u00a0 From there, it enters the camera and is recorded onto the tape or disc or memory card, hard drive or whatever your camera records on.<\/p>\n
With a wireless microphone, the people talking on-camera won’t be tethered by the mic cable; they can be as far away from the camera as you want, which is a joy and opens up tons of creative options. Having a microphone umbilical cord is a pain!<\/p>\n
Another advantage with using a wireless is that people wearing them tend to forget it’s there, and this helps them lose any inhibitions they may feel being in front of the camera. Often, you can get much more entertaining and watchable video this way.<\/p>\n
I hope this discussion of audio for video helps you make better videos.<\/p>\n
Lorraine Grula<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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