By handle the workflow I don't mean just a couple minutes of footage I mean hours and multiple TB worth of footage.

You can get this Panasonic Gh2 for $379 its a good camera. Upstream colour was shot on it.

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In the words David Cronenberg "Storyboarding is Hitchcock's Mythology". Storyboarding a film is an archaic tool. Plan your shots around your actors and visualize it on set like Chris Nolan does.

The actresses are female and i've done some tests with the Sanken COS11 they sounded great but it picked up way too much ambient noise. I've read that the rode lavs do that too but i haven't tried them. I know about the trams because the were used in the kings speech. The problem is lavs are expensive and i'm not sure which to buy. Im not even sure what technical spec to look for to reduce the wide ambient noise frequency.

Yeah the lav mic will be under the shirt. I only have the choice to either rent the rode or ME2 or buy the jk mic-j 044 for 25 bucks.