ASK & DISCUSS INDEX

7 years, 1 month ago - John Lubran

It depends on a number of things.

The environment
The budget
The sort of production

The environment includes the scale and type of ambient sound and the spacial limitation; how much room is available on the rickshaw? Can another vehicle escorts the rickshaw?

Budget and genre go together. If it's a factual production one might be able to tolerate more circumstantial intrusion than if it's a drama.

On the most basic level a very close mike with a narrow short range spectrum can define a voice sufficiently well within a noisy environment with a compact camera recording 48 PCM via a balanced XLR, with both sound and picture controlled by one person sitting in the rickshaw with the subject.

Apart from the foregoing examples there's a dozen others ranging from glorified home movie set ups, which can be excellent, to big budget movie options.

How long is a piece of string? !

7 years, 1 month ago - Vasco de Sousa

Why do you want to do it on a rickshaw?

As John says, there are a number of factors.

I'm connected to a director who made a documentary which was completely filmed in moving and working taxis, and he may be able to help, if there's a budget involved. I figured out how some of it is done. He managed to work with many of the same limitations as a rickshaw, and I'm sure he's smart enough to know how to make it work.

(I connected to him to work on another project after seeing a couple of documentaries which impressed me. I'm not telling him about it if there's no money in it though, or if the project sounds silly, he has enough on his plate. If you've seen someone who did something similar, it might be an idea to hire them.)

7 years, 1 month ago - Philip Carr

I’d use two Gopros and radio mikes monitored from another vehicle.