It’s expensive and it doesn’t yield much better sound because you have to be in the action.Īpparently you invented gonzo style porn shooting, where the filmer participates in the action? Maybe he can get better sound sometimes, but the trade-off to have one or two more people on set while I’m trying to shoot hurts the vibe.
You actually get better sound on average with the mic on the camera because you’re looking at their face with the camera, whereas a boom guy has to come in from the side. I used the internal VX1000 mic and I knew I had to get 3 or 4 feet away to get really good sound.īoom guys are always in the way. The unique thing I did when I shot my film Buda was that I didn’t use a boom mic. I liked the mic on the VX1000 because it was more omnidirectional, which was way better for me as Buttman because I’m talking from behind the camera a lot of the time. People in skateboarding like the sound of a VX1000 because the mic is very high quality. It was a bigger budget thing I shot over a couple weeks in Budapest, and it actually won best video.
I shot my movie Buda with that little camera. So you had people who were into porn shooting porn. With the quality and ease of use, people who had been actors could shoot and people who had good ideas could shoot. It was way better quality, and it allowed me more flexibility and speed to move around and set up the dialogue. What were your first thoughts about the VX1000 when it came out? What porn films did you produce with it?