Basics of sound recording for beginners and writing journalists

This is my lecture held on November 24th, 2017 at the American Center in Moscow. It was meant mostly for writing journalists who have to produce multimedia content of more or less reasonable quality while not being experts in sound recording, filming or photography, often with only a smartphone at their disposal. I explained various kinds and purposes of microphones as well as basic techniques or still and video capture. I hope that with the information I provide here almost anyone can produce passable results that are good enough for news, vlogging and podcasting. THIS IS NOT FOR PROFESSIONALS, although professional photographers who are just starting to produce video, as well as rookie cameramen found that lecture useful.

The presentation is available separately as a PDF (≈7,7 Mb) here: https://goo.gl/d654N4