Sound For News Report

We have noticed that when we filmed our news report, the camera picked up lots of background sounds. So we have been looking at ways to get rid of it. We have been trying out using a noise gate on the sound which gets rid of the background noise, when our news reporter is not speaking. We have been experimenting with the use of the parametric EQ to try and get rid of the background sound when our character is speaking. So far, we aren't very successful, because it sounds quite robotic. But the hope is that if we play background music, then the unwanted background sounds will be inaudible.