I think you want to avoid shotgun mic. You might consider lavalier/lavaliere mics. These are the little mics that clip to clothing (I think Radio Shack actually calls them Tie-clip mics or something and sells them for around $20). Even better, you can rent the wireless boxes that accept the audio feed from the mic and transmit it so your actors have freedom of movement.

While this will provide a solution, you will probably have the best results dubbing the sound separately. Record the crowd noise and have your actors do the dialogue normally (even though it?s lost in the noise). Later have the actors perform their dialogue in a quiet room while watching the video and sync it up in editing.

Hope this helps.

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In most movies the club is silent and music and crowd noise added in later so that you can get clean sound for your dialogue. If that's not possible you might consider ADR as any sound captured in a live club is likely to be unusable despite painful attempts to get it right.

RJSchwarz
San Diego, CA

Thanks. I'll see if i can get the extras in the shot to keep silent while the actors perform. Then add backgroud noise in post.

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