Week 6
This week I finally was able to get in contact with all the people I would be working with throughout the film set, as only about half of them showed up to the original crew meeting due to complications on set. My director, Anastasia, seems to have a very prepared shooting schedule and I was able to get my hands on the script to start doing a script breakdown as well as a shot list, and exactly which scenes would be shot when and on which days. I still have yet to see the location as it has not been confirmed yet but I feel as if I can move the boom pole fairly easily around tight corners, so I won’t worry too much about that until I hear something more about it. I was also able to talk to the sound designer and composer, who both seem very cool and knowledgable in their respective fields. With the sound designer I went over the shot list and discussed exactly what extra wild takes she would need, and made note to get room tone from every place we filmed on the last day of set which was set up just for sound takes. I have yet to meet the Sound Recorder, and I’m not sure of their name or how to contact them, but I spoke to the first AD and it seems like I will just have to meet them on the first day on set.
On my own time, taking the advice of Tracy, I went back to the film Mulholland Drive, and read up about the sound crew for that film: Kevin Kubota who was acting as the boom operator (with William Monroe as the extra boom op), as well as many other people who acted in different sound roles. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0166924/fullcredits/sound_department
From the IMDB page I can’t tell exactly who was in teh role of ‘sound recordist’ on set, as there are a whole bunch of adr recorders, mixers, dialogue specific editors, ect. But it seems that Ed Novick was the potentially the HOD, as he had the role of production sound mixer? I’m not quite sure what all of the different jobs do since it was a much bigger production then the one I will be on, but assuming the Ed Novick is who I should be looking at, I went through his IMDB so I could find other films he had worked on and watch through them focusing on the type of sound he was achieving. I was very excited to see he had worked on some of my favorite childhood films like Shark Boy and Lava Girl, andBring it On, as well as some of my current favorites like Inception, MoneyBall, and Dark Knight. With some more googling it seems like is a really big name in sound, having received a BAFTA and an Academy Award, so I felt a bit silly not knowing who he was, but now that I do I’m going to try and go through and watch more of his films so I can be even more prepared to act like Ed Novick on set.
