Audio Recording

Never record audio with a microphone that has a mini jack. Use Balanced XLR microphone, mini jacks have more chance of you recording electronic sound. Make the audio peak at about -12dB because if it peaks at 0 then it will clip.

CYA (Cover Your Arse)

Wear Headphones - The meter you are using will not be able to pick up on any Background noise like wind/ a distant airplane however if you are using headphones you will be able to hear it.

Tell your actors how the audio is being captured - You should tell your actors how the audio is being recorded because if you are using a boom then you will want them to project their voices towards the microphone. 

The best way to capture audio in film is in a close up because the boom operator has more room to get closer to the actor.

A shotgun microphone is directional so it will only pick up the audio that it is pointing at.

A lavalier microphone (clip on) is omnidirectional this means that it picks up audio from all around.

Colour Correction

Colour is measured in Degrees Kelvin. Colour correction is used in post production if the camera man forgot to white balance the camera, white balancing is when someone holds a piece of paper up to the camera and zooms in on it to tell the camera this is white in this light. 

Videos are made up of red green and blue pixels. (RGB).

To colour correct you should use the RGB parade in Adobe Premier pro. to get to it press the button circled in the picture.

Then click RGB Colour parade to be taken to the graph. The RGB parade will show you the exposure of the levels of the colour in each frame. if a video has to much of a certain colour it is "Over-Exposed"

Fast colour correction and RGB curves are two of the ways that you can colour correct. You can find these in the effects , drag them to the clip you want to edit.