what kind of mic is ideal?

Question

I am going to be filming a student short film for my acting for the camera class with two actors.
one will be stationary and the other will be moving from a close location to the student.

I was thinking of getting 2 mini cassette mics and or getting a 360 degree mic normally used for business meetings.

any help would be great.
thanks.

Answer 1

You'd need a mixer and feed to the camecorder.

Another ways is two wireless mics.

You can ALSO experiment with this.

Two DIGITAL dictation recorders one for each actor. Use a clap board and then sync up the audio tracks to the picture.

The beauty if digital is automatic time code and sync.

Answer 2

I'd say go with one boom mounted shotgun mic, or two wireless or hidden lavs. If you get a boom mounted shotgun mic, make sure you get a good boom operator, or at least someone to be the boom operator. If you can't use two lavs, preferably wireless, although you could stick two digital sound or minidisc recorders in their pockets, and use wired lavs, with a clapper. You can make a clapper easily out of two rulers painted with black and white stripes. Hope this helps!