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    Part of the video series: How to Be a TV News Reporter

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    Summary: Learn how to use shotgun mics for TV news with expert journalism advice from an experienced broadcast journalist in this free television career video clip.

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    By Bill Albin
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    Bill Albin is currently the head reporter at WLAJ 53 in Lansing, Michigan. He attended Specks Howard Broadcasting school in Detroit, Michigan.read more

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    "BILL ALBIN: Hello, I'm Bill Albin. And on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to teach you what you need to know to be a local news reporter. In this clip, we're going to talk about shotgun mics. There are three basic kinds of microphones that we use in news. There is the lavalier; there's the handheld mic, and then there's the shotgun mic. The shotgun mic is typically mounted on the camera itself, and what it does is it collects nat sound, which is natural sound, the sound going on around you independently of the other sounds like the actual hand mic that you're doing an interview with and--or a lavalier as well. So the shotgun mic itself is--one of the cool things about this is that it gets things that are very far away. Oftentimes, you'll see things at a--like a sporting event, where the guy has the little dish and it has a long, straight microphone and he's got his headphones and he's pointing at the actual play on the field. And suddenly, you can hear the voice of the actual players hundreds of feet away. Now, that's because--the way a shotgun mic works is it focuses the sound in a very specific direction, and what it does is it only gets sound from that direction. So it ignores a lot of the sound on the sides and devotes its attention to one point at a distance. So the shotgun mic allows us to get very great sound from a long way away."

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