capturing voices?

When I'm making my video I have come into a problem. The camera that I'm using doesn't capture voices very well. what should I do?

 

buy an external microphone

 

Or you could do it the worst way possible, and record the voices afterword and try your best to lipsink them. (eek) Then again, there are shots in some movies where that's necessary, but you can't see the actor's lips so it's not that big of a problem. They did this for "The Grinch" when he was tossing letters into the wrong slots.

 

I'm trying to save up money for a real digital video camera I use a digital camera that has a video feature in it.

 

bump

 

They gave u your options. I dont think there's need to bump. Buy an external mic (from bhphotovideo.com would proly be the cheapest) or dub it through your computer mic.

~Neszis~

 

Robert Rodriguez mentions in "Rebel without a Crew" that his audio was captured after the film and hand synced. Being all by himself he had no sound operator so it was kind of the only option. Apparently the tape recorder he caught the audio on played back at a slightly different speed to the film so he had to keep cutting away and resyncing the pictures while editing. This gives the movie an action feel (constantly moving and cutting) even in the slow, dialog scenes. Which just goes to show that sometimes you have to make adjustments throughout the production to your original vision, and sometimes they work out for the better.