What’s a filmmaker wearing in his backpack?

I justify my absence in the columns, for a very busy first semester, where I did not have the availability to share with you a little bit of this audiovisual world, because in today’s article I tell you a little bit about the things that are. essential for a filmmaker, photographer, aspiring audiovisual videographer, to carry it with him in his backpack.

Well, the essential thing and what we all know is to always be with your digital camera, you never know when an unexpected event can happen, from a disaster to a single element that you will only see once in your life, you don’t need to have the best camera on the market, or even the one that captures with the greatest number of pixels, so in most cases what makes the difference is the photographer and not the camera you use , so the camera is of the utmost importance because it is always with you no matter your departure. The star products of a production are video and audio, is the form of capture that you will use in your productions essential?you can have a boom microphone, which is available on the market by more compact versions or tie microphones that are very small and easy to carry, if your intention is more journalistic, you can opt for dynamic cardioids that have done their job well.

  • With audio and video up to date.
  • You have to worry about some devices that have done the job properly.
  • Which is the case of always having the batteries and memory cards ready.
  • Batteries properly charged and always more than one.
  • So that in case of prolonged capture.
  • There are no surprises.
  • In the case of batteries.
  • Careful if you recharged them a long time ago and do not use them in a long time.
  • Which will end up leaving them unused in your backpack (I think this is not your expensive reader case.
  • Because normally those who like this domain can not spend hours without storing something).
  • Be careful to check the respective loads each week.
  • As for memory cards.
  • It is normal that we take a recording and find old files that will leave us in doubt whether we had already downloaded them or not.
  • So my advice about it is that you always download your files.
  • At the same time be sure to format the map.
  • So that it is ready for future registrations.

Always wear a mini tripod preferably, because it will help you and a lot if you happen to want to take an overexposed photo or something. Always carry batteries and batteries with you, many microphones and digital recorders run on batteries and batteries, and losing them in the woods or in a canyon can be a headache for your production.

A basic toolkit, with a screwdriver, a cruciform screwdriver, wrenches, pliers, pliers, insulating tape, silver ribbon and Wd are essential. It is often necessary to make a small repair on a cable, connector or even on a tripod and the tools provided. all attendance.

Headphones: They are essential for a good return of your audio captured by your microphone, a simple mobile phone headset will suffice with the V. U. reading the camera to properly analyze the audio output.

That’s why, dear reader, these and other very important tips that involve having material with you are essential to producing good content, but the advice I give you is that most of the time, events happen unexpectedly and we always have to be prepared for it. .

In this video, I visually bring some of these tips to eMania blog readers:

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