The Wilhelm Scream

After you are familiar with the Wilhelm scream, you'll always catch it in every movie that has it. so here's twelve minutes of it!

Film Making Tips Day 14: Recording Sound

Good quality sound can go further in making your movie look professional than good quality visuals. I've talked about some of the tools before. At Filmmakeriq, they made a very in depth video on how to capture good sound, and it is so detailed, I can’t summarize it here. So you should just watch it!

Film Making Tips Day 12: Free Audio Editors

Having good sound is essential in having a professional looking movie. To do that, we need the proper software to get the cleanest sound possible. My favorite program to use is Audacity. Often I will bring my laptop onto a set and record the sound directly into Audacity so I can start editing the sound right away. This is a fantastic free software that has all kind of tools to clean up your audio and make it sound as good as possible.

Download Audacity here!

Here are a couple more free options that I found:
Jokosher
LMMS

Having good sound also requires good equipment.

Film Making Tips Day Three: Boom Poles

Sometimes the audio from your camera mic just won’t cut it. That why it’s always a good idea to use a boom pole to capture sound. These can be made inexpensively from painter’s poles, fishing poles, monopods, or even broomsticks! There are many many great tutorials, but here are a few that I like:

Indy Mogul
Film Riot
DIY Camera Guy

Most shotgun mics will be able to connect directly into your digital camera, but if you are recording on an external source or you are on a multi camera shoot you will need a slate to sync up your sound.

These can be bought online for cheap or you can download apps to turn your tablet into a slate. But if worst comes to worst you can always just have someone clap in front of the camera before a take!