Few questions about amateur movie project?

Question

My friends and I are making our first movie (kind of), and we want to have multiple cameras so we can have different angles of the same footage without having to reshoot the same scene again and worry about continuity or certain actions/gestures being a little different when there's a cut. Should this be a problem for the audio? Also, to have better sound and cut out some of the background noise, we were thinking about wearing lavalier mics. The only problem is, the cameras don't have any jacks for plugging audio recorders into. Is there a way we can work around this so we can still record our voices and other audio and get it to sync with the video? Also, do you have any other advice for us that could make our lives a little bit easier doing this? Thanks in advance for any help.

Answer 1

you could buy a mini disc recorder for pretty cheap and use that as you sound recorder. it'll do a better job with the lav mics compared to the standard internal mic. . just make sure you have a clapper board handy to help sync up the multicams and sound.

heres how you do it:

roll all cams at once and put clapper board in plain view of all cams. roll sound (after testing of course) and call out the shot that corresponds to the slate no. (eg say 'shot 75 cameras a b and c) all cam ops will say 'set!' and main cam says 'mark it' where the clapper smacks the bar down nice and loud.

and there you have synced sound and multicam vision!

Answer 2

Field recorder.

Marantz

http://www.zzounds.com/item--MARPMD620

M-Audio

http://www.zzounds.com/item--MDOMICROII

Fostex

http://www.zzounds.com/item--FOSMR8MKII

You also need mics with this one...

Zoom:

http://www.zzounds.com/item--ZOMH2