Sound is a curious thing. If it’s done well it becomes part of the overall production and nobody really notices it. If it’s done badly it sticks out like a sore thumb and it makes a production hard to watch, perhaps because of the concentration that is necessary in order to make sense of the speech. What is more likely to happen is that the viewer will just give up and stop watching. So improving the sound on your production is a big step.

It starts with your equipment. There are very few ways to improve your sound if you are forced to use the built-in microphone on your camera. This is because that microphone is normally poor quality, it’s not at the optimum point to capture sound from your subject and it quite often picks up sound from the camera itself, so…
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