I am a few months away from production. The film is being shot with four canon super 8 auto zooms, and the sound is being recorded with a boom mic on a mini disc recorder. I was thinking last night about the sound of the film being shot (it makes a whirring noise) catching on the mic. It is a possibility that all sounds be recorded in a studio, but I would like to avoid this if possible. If you have any suggestions, please post. Danka.

use a leather jacket or any type of thick cloth that will muffle the sounds of the camera. Just make sure that it isn't covering the lens!

You could try re-recording all of the sounds in a studio (additional dialogue recording), however that is extremely time consuming and difficult to do because you have to sync it perfectly (or close to perfectly). I would suggest not doing that, just try to get the best sound you can during production. Viel Glück!

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Use a unidirectional mic, keep it as far away from the camera as possible, and monitor the recording with a decent pair of headphones.

My filmbuddies and I had a simulare problem with our sound. Our film doesnt have that much dialogue, The camera we are using has a really annoying sound when its rolling, we decided to post sync the sound during editing.

I agree with Evan, if there is any dialogue just consider it to be impossible to sinc the lip movements in studio. We were making an action movie and had problems with the audio, so after many attempts of trying to re-record the voices, we just decided instead to make it a japanese parody. We hit record, and improvised the dialogue from start to finish. It turned out to be a pretty hilarious short, but the project was obviously ruined.

Use a mic.