I interviewed a man who has so much love for sound, Chris Everts. Chris is sound technician and perfects DitzTV’s sound on many videos. Last year, DitzTV had a filming in Berlin for Flexport. They had to film experiences of customers. But when they started filming in a meeting room to focus on one particular person, the sound was so hollow, that Chris insisted on changing the location because it would not be good for the overall quality of the film. So please try to avoid meeting rooms, it was like filming in a bathroom.
The focus for this film was a close-up on the customer, meaning the surrounding was not as important, so it was easy to change the location for the sound to be better. For this reason the person in charge of sound and the camera man should be very close involved.
Camera and sound should work together
Chris says that the partnership between sound and camera is a very important dynamic that should work well together to accomplish perfection. It can even be seen as a marriage, both parties have to compromise depending on what the film needs to get the message across. In some cases image is more important, but in other cases, sound is.