Sound for Video Session: Allen Williams - Boom Operator
In this week's Sound for Video Session, we have a conversation with Boom Operator Allen Williams. Allen has worked on TV shows including The Walking Dead and Stranger Things along with many other shows and movies - see his IMDB credits: www.imdb.com/name/nm1147441/?...
In our conversation, Allen shares a wealth of knowledge related to production sound and operating a boom mic along with many tips for the types of challenges and issues that the sound department faces on set every day.
Allen also has his own KZread channel called SoundSpeeds over at / soundspeeds
Allen mentioned a few videos during our discussion:
How to composite out a boom mic for wide shots: • The Invisible Boom - S...
Building Better Boom Ops Playlist: • Building Better Boom Ops
Gear used to record this session:
Shure SM7b Microphone
B&H: bhpho.to/2NTUZHi
Sound Devices MixPre-10T Audio Recorder
B&H: bhpho.to/2D57TvT
Panasonic GH5S Camera
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Panasonic 12-35mm f/2.8 OIS Lens
B&H: bhpho.to/2i6s2gv
AJA U-Tap USB video capture box
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Copyright 2019 by Curtis Judd
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Пікірлер: 32
This is gold! Curtis and Allen are my go to options for sound knowledge. Curtis, you kill it with the reviews and testing. Allen, you really go deep on the topics on sound, gear and 3BO (I love that series). Hopefully we'll see more colaboration between you two. Thank you for this!
@LearnLightAndSoundSessions
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks Carlos!
This interview with two of the best "professors" out there are priceless. Thank you a lot as usual for your hard work being Audio disseminators guys. Thank you.
@LearnLightAndSoundSessions
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks M Duarte!
I saw this today. Lords of the audio. It's nice to have you together.
@curtisjudd
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching Tevfik!
This was quite an engaging interview to listen to. Thanks, Curtis and Alan, for taking the time to make this and for being so open and communicative about the industry and profession.
@curtisjudd
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks Cool Mark D, and Allen for being so generous with his time.
This is the interview that needed to happen!
@LearnLightAndSoundSessions
5 жыл бұрын
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LOL! What a total geek out session! Love It! 👍
@SoundSpeeds
5 жыл бұрын
Oh yeah man. Total geek here!
@LearnLightAndSoundSessions
5 жыл бұрын
When you get the audio nerds together... 😀
@BasicFilmmaker
5 жыл бұрын
@@@LearnLightAndSoundSessions @Sound Speeds Thanks for taking the time. Now I know what all those pesky "sound people" were doing on set. 👍
Great interview guys!
@LearnLightAndSoundSessions
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks Chris!
Got back two days ago from a 10 day indie film shoot. Not super happy with the result of the audio. Boy i wish i had seen this interview before i left. Really great info and great interview! I guess i'll go fix it in post now...
@SoundSpeeds
5 жыл бұрын
Yikes. Sorry dude. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out.
@LearnLightAndSoundSessions
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks antefjante, sorry to hear about the production audio and best wishes in post!
@pwoblem
5 жыл бұрын
@@SoundSpeeds appreciate it alot!
@pwoblem
5 жыл бұрын
@@LearnLightAndSoundSessions Thanks curtis! :)
One of your best interviews very informative learnt a few new things thankyou
@LearnLightAndSoundSessions
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks Mark!
Awesome
@LearnLightAndSoundSessions
2 жыл бұрын
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If you were interviewing the interviewee for a job, and you were using his equipment knowledge as a gauge of his experience, you would be sold at 23:53-25:38. He goes into crazy detail/preference over shockmounts... shockmounts!
@curtisjudd
5 жыл бұрын
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@SoundSpeeds
5 жыл бұрын
You had me at "crazy". ;-)
Wow - great stuff. Interesting guy.
@LearnLightAndSoundSessions
5 жыл бұрын
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boom op seems like a stressful job! it actually seems more difficult than the acting itself.
@LearnLightAndSoundSessions
5 жыл бұрын
The good thing is that there is a dedicated person to worry about sound in the middle of the set action.