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Hey guys, hope this is in the right forum....

Just trying to learn the basics of recording a battle report. I'm decent already with movie maker and similar programs, and good enough with a camera for small reports, timing when to turn it on and off etc. What I haven't taken into account is the audio. The only tutorial I could find from miniwargaming shows Matt recording the commentary over the silent video clips after the fact. He doesn't explain how they record the audio for the person they're playing against, or getting genuinely live reactions while playing the game. Do they use mics on their bodies connected to sound recorders? Or do they just use the microphone built into the camera. Would I be fine just using the audio recorded by my go pro for dice rolls and then overdub things like moving models, deployment etc. I want to keep some of the actual discussion between the players during the game in the reports. Thanks guys!

They do.

Depending on the camera you're using you may be able to connect a wireless mic setup to it. You'd have two microphones, one on your person, one on the opponent. Some of these rigs are are pretty costly. Our gaming group started doing Battle Reports relatively recently, and I'm still researching the appropriate audio setup for us. We visit LGS in NY Metro area, some of these places tend to get really noisy as you can hear in some of our BatReps (www.battle-report.com) and we're realizing that we have to address the audio situation ASAP.

Cheers,

Thoth

When you say microphone do you mean one that amplifies your voice and then the camera mic actually records it? Or do you mean body mics that are connected to sound recorders so you have the audio recorded separately?

Cheers for the advice

Something like this on the inexpensive side https://www.amazon.com/Movo-Wireless-Lavalier-Microphone-Digital/dp/B00TIZ253I/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1496146394&sr=1-1-fkmr1&keywords=canon+wireless+microphone+for+hf+g20 or if you're feeling like dropping a few more $$ then https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0147JID44/ref=sspa_dk_detail_6?psc=1&smid=A2LXBKOLL3J3K6.

Cheers,

Thoth