1 I'm all ears – theoretically!
Sound – the executive explanation
Sound reflection and absorption
3 Camcorder: power and audio facilities
4 Camcorder: track selection and magnetic recording
Level control and dynamic range
7 Camcorder: external facilities
Headphone monitoring volume control
8 Mics: types in common location usage
Reporter's hand-held (stick) mic: omni-directional
Clip (personal) mic: omnidirectional
10 Mics: placement with regard to speech
11 Mics: use of clip mic for seated interview
Making the interviewee comfortable:
Last word on cable concealment
12 Mics: practical listening exercise (a) mic quality
13 Mics: practical listening exercise (b) mic placement and sound discrimination
14 Sound balance and location acoustics
17 Single person operation: mic placement overview and static operation
18 Single person operation: specific location scenarios
19 Single person operation: use of headphones
20 Single person operation: tracks, levels and practical exercise (c)
Practical exercise (c): pre-location
21 Single person operation: shooting
22 Sound recordist operation: mixer
23 Sound recordist operation: track selection
24 Sound recordist operation: mixing mics
25 Sound recordist operation: practical exercises (d) and (e)
Practical exercise (d): mixing
Practical exercise (e): mixing and balancing
26 Sound recordist operation: balancing
27 Sound recordist operation: pole operation
28 Sound recordist operation: multiple contributors
Shooting from several camera positions
Additional mixer stereo facilities
‘The greatest invention since sliced bread’
Timecode feed to ancillary equipment
34 Pre-location equipment check
37 Mics: technical information and operational summaries