Hey, this is Scott of Photography Banzai.
In this video I want to talk about an interview I did recently
for my other YouTube channel. I was contacted by someone locally about manga
and anime style art show. They knew that I was into that stuff from a mutual
friend. And I thought it'd be nice to do some type of video. I wasn't really sure
what I would do, but I'd bring my.. some of my gear that I had on-hand and also just
see what happens. Worked out decently well. I'll link the
video in the description you can check out if you would like. So the process
from a technical standpoint, I used the Canon SL2. I used one of my Takstar
shotgun microphones on the camera. And also I used a lavalier mic or lapel mic
on myself. And with the Olympus recorders that I've talked about a little bit in
the past. the goal there was that the shotgun mic would be getting the audio
from the person in the interview. And then the lapel mic would be getting me
talking and saying questions and all of that. It did work out actually, which is good.
Because when I got to the place I knew it was a bar. I didn't know it also has a
restaurant side to it. But I wasn't sure... I thought maybe there would be a room or
something that would be used just for this. Turns out that wasn't the case. The..
all of the artwork was just lining some of the bar area. So it was extremely loud.
Very very very busy and I was just wasn't sure what I was going to do once
I got there. But I didn't interview the person who organized it, and has done
quite a few in the past. It did turn out. You'll see, ahh, like I said in the link
if you want to check it out. My idea was to get him talking about the art shows.
That one specifically, but also other ones it is done. And also I wanted to get
some b-roll of the artwork itself to kind of intermix between his talking. So
it's not just a straight face shot for the whole thing. Also I wanted to do some
type of intro and outro. I did that here at my house.
And I think it worked out all right. I wanted to just make it somewhat
interesting. So we're going to get to the editing side of things where you can see how
I mixed all of the clips together, and especially the audio between the shotgun
mic and my lapel mic. So let's go to that.
So here's the project all finished up.
Look at a little bit in detail. Ah, this is Sony or actually Magix Movie Studio
14 Platinum. Sony Vegas all that software they sold two Magix
a while back. This is the first version of the consumer side that they put all
of their branding on. Zoom in, so here's the initial clip of me just talking
about what's going to happen. I really wanted to not just jump right into the
interview. So I made this section put a.. put some text and see his website and
all that. Of course just this top one here is the overlay for my logo. I do put
in a lot of my videos. Here's the interview itself. So one issue is there
was a flashing light. The light came from a ceiling fan with a light above it and
every time the ceiling fan rotated it showed up in the video. I didn't really want to
move him around. It probably would have been good if we found a better spot, but
we just worked with what we had. It was extremely busy there and loud. So in this
case I had the camera facing him with the shotgun mic, the mic... The shotgun mic is
recording his voice. And then here is there's a clip of my lapel microphone.
See these little dots here. These are... see what the name is... it's an
envelope. A volume envelope. So you add that to a certain track you can double
click on it and then move these little things around. So in that case I wanted
to not use a lot of the audio that my lapel microphone recorded. Because it
picked up more background noise when I was not talking. So whenever I switch
between him talking or I was talking I pushed
the audio either off or on for the most part with these tools. So that's my audio.
I talk in the beginning and then we switched to him talking. Just see it
flips back and forth. I say a little thing like okay yeah, that goes back up.
Up here I do a little bit more talking. "So you have some art yourself in the show... Yeah, I got the three..."
Idea with that. So this clip here the big interview part trying to hold it as
steady as possible. But I did add a stabilize tool in this program. So you
have to go into the media FX area. And then you can adjust these two settings and also
rolling shutter. In this case I wasn't moving so I didn't really need to use
that rolling shutter thing. But the pan and smoothing I turn this down usually.
Because it eats up some of the (field of view) if you really push that
those two values. That said, I do add some b-roll to different areas of the video.
So there he switches off to one of his artwork pieces that it recorded.
I added stabilizer two these as well. Just so it looks a little better. It wasn't
amazing but it gets the point across. I do add some text of course. So when
he's talking about his artist group. You know, puts a.. I put a link in there from
that. That's pretty much it. Nice fun little interview. It did work out much better
than I expected from a technical standpoint. Especially the audio. So I
can get into specifics on that in the future. Basically, I have my shotgun mic
set to +10 DB. And then I lower the internal... internal pre-amp in the Canon
camera. I lower that down quite a bit.
So that's pretty much it for this section . Hope you enjoyed
checking out this project for the interview. So that's pretty much it for
this little interview from a technical standpoint. I wanted to potentially use
this technique in the future for this channel. Trying to think of ways that I
can do that, or situations that would work well for photography or videography
stuff. See how it goes. Anyways hope you enjoyed this video. I'm
Scott from photography Banzai, thanks!
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