Post by nickf on Sept 28, 2017 10:00:14 GMT
I have enjoyed watching Londonist's video on the Northern Line extension to Battersea.
Northern Line Extension
Full of very useful information and very well presented. It would be churlish indeed to criticise the production values, but if you are going to interview someone in a noisy location, as is done at the start of the video, please either use a tight shot so you can get a microphone in close; or have both interviewer and interviewee wear personal microphones. Geoff was wearing the mic and his audio was fine, whereas the interviewee, Jonathan Cooper, was not and his voice was much lower in level and was struggling a little against the background noise. It is a tiny fault to gripe about, but Geoff's videos are usually so damn good that a minor fault such as this stands out...especially to a retired sound recordist such as me, who hears much worse perpetrated on broadcast television, thanks to the emasculation of the unions...blah blah, rant rant, moan groan drone.
Northern Line Extension
Full of very useful information and very well presented. It would be churlish indeed to criticise the production values, but if you are going to interview someone in a noisy location, as is done at the start of the video, please either use a tight shot so you can get a microphone in close; or have both interviewer and interviewee wear personal microphones. Geoff was wearing the mic and his audio was fine, whereas the interviewee, Jonathan Cooper, was not and his voice was much lower in level and was struggling a little against the background noise. It is a tiny fault to gripe about, but Geoff's videos are usually so damn good that a minor fault such as this stands out...especially to a retired sound recordist such as me, who hears much worse perpetrated on broadcast television, thanks to the emasculation of the unions...blah blah, rant rant, moan groan drone.
