. Windscreen & Microphone Mounts How windscreens help product your audio Windscreens are a must whether you’re shooting indoors or outdoors. Even if there is no wind indoors, camera movement can create wind-noise as the camera moves around an indoor environment. The problem with the sound from wind is that it actually doesn’t sound like wind at all. It’s an abrasive, popping & screeching sound that’s terrible to listen to as an audience. Windscreens help guard the microphone against air moving against it. In their most basic form a windscreen is simply a hollowed out form of acoustic-foam which protects against the abrasive sound of wind but doesn’t muffle the sound of audio. These microphone covers serve another purpose as well. They help lower the chance that the microphone will pick up the “popping sound” of someone’s voice while they are speaking. If the wind is more extreme, you may want to use a “softie” which most of us are familiar with from seeing film sets. They are usually larger and more robust than the foam. In many recording situations you’ll also want to use a fish-pole to help position the microphone in the best possible recording area close to the subject. The trick with this is to get the microphone as close to the sound as possible without getting the microphone or the shadow from the microphone or fish-pole in the scene. Continue Below... Filmmaking: Windscreens Lavalier Microphones Positioning the microphone in a film How to position a microphone outdoors Sound Continuity       .

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