Dennis Schrader

Shoot Talking Head Video like a PRO (Interviews, Youtube, Online Courses & more)

Hey Alentina, thanks for the question. Just took a look at your channel and first off: Good job! I don't know if you have any prior experience but that looks all really good. Regarding the audio: Here are a couple of ways you could improve it a bit.I think the main issue is reverb. I might be wrong but I feel like I hear some de-reverb effect that you did in post? In any case I think there are two options to get rid of it. Number one is get the mic as close to you, up 20-30cm away from your mouth. That will cut out quite a bit of sound around you. The other thing could be to bring in some sort of sound panels or sound "blankets" to lower the reverb in the room.I do have to say though, the sound is not terrible for what it is in my opinion. You are not making a audio-technician channel, so people will cut you some slack. If its really important to you, I respect that - in that case I would almost say the easiest is to get an affordable condenser microphone. Those are made for speaking (often used in podcasting or radio)<a target="_blank" rel="noopener external nofollow" href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blue-Microphones-Yeti-Microphone-Silver/dp/B002VA464S/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&amp;keywords=blue+yeti&amp;qid=1595025804&amp;sr=8-5">www.amazon.co.uk/Blue-Microphones-Yeti-Microphone-Silver/dp/B002VA464S/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&amp;keywords=blue+yeti&amp;qid=1595025804&amp;sr=8-5</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener external nofollow" href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rode-Microphones-NT-USB-Microphone/dp/B00KQPGRRE/ref=sr_1_13?dchild=1&amp;keywords=blue+yeti&amp;qid=1595025804&amp;sr=8-13">www.amazon.co.uk/Rode-Microphones-NT-USB-Microphone/dp/B00KQPGRRE/ref=sr_1_13?dchild=1&amp;keywords=blue+yeti&amp;qid=1595025804&amp;sr=8-13</a>Another thing that I noticed is that you have positioned your camera a bit below eye-level, right? If you have a chance, I would bring that up to eye-level and tilt down the camera a bit. A tiny tiny bit more head room than now would be good for the image as well in my opinion. All in all a great job, Alentina. Hope that was helpful, feel free to follow-up any time and good luck on your channel!Dennis

Hi Dennis, 

Thank you SO much for taking the time to look over it and for your detailed reply! I appreciate it so much! I don't have any prior experience in this, and have just recently learned through your course and some others, so thank you for the positive words. 

I tested out the enveloper - room killer in final cut pro to remove the echo but it made me sound very chipmunky haha so I removed it in the end. But I used the limited to increase the gain a bit, maybe that's what you're hearing.

I'll look into the rode camera, thank you again for the links and for writing back!

All my best,
Alentina

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Thank you for all the tips! I bought the rode shotgun mic but I still can't seem to get the audio right, any advice? :)

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