Alexander Burstein Posted August 22, 2012 Report Share Posted August 22, 2012 Heard this morning on the set... Boom Operator to Gaffer: "Good morning". Gaffer to Boom Operator: "We're not turning off the overheads". Glen Trew This. My eternal headache. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesse Flaitz Posted August 22, 2012 Report Share Posted August 22, 2012 Here's a good one I got today. The DP is giving me crap for trying to good footstep sound, to reduce needed foley, around his ass loud epic and I get "his feet aren't even on camera...". Me *sigh* "They still make sounds..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Hoppe Posted August 22, 2012 Report Share Posted August 22, 2012 Same job as above, sit down interview direct to camera: Director: "can you raise the boom mic?" Me: "is it in the frame?" Director: "No, but it's in my frame." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevegrider Posted August 22, 2012 Report Share Posted August 22, 2012 Not in THE frame, "his" frame? "His" frame doesn't count. I hope you told him so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Hoppe Posted August 22, 2012 Report Share Posted August 22, 2012 I've stopped trying to introduce logic into this process in this job. I gave a blank look and sat back down behind my mixer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taylormadeaudio Posted August 22, 2012 Report Share Posted August 22, 2012 Good Lord! I've fallen into a more "Zen" approach in the last few years (actually, since my daughter was born) where I simply tell them that whatever sounds there are, I will record them with the utmost clarity. I still try to get clean tracks, and I still point out problems, but I honestly don't care any more if someone wants to shoot 2/3 of a feature-length project right across a small river from a paper mill, municipal airport with helicopter school, police academy weapons training compound, and a train switching yard... oh yeah, been there, done that... collected my checks, and jokingly requested that my title for the credits be changed to "Guide Track Specialist" Life is too short to let someone else's poor decisions raise my blood pressure. "Sound Speed" ; ) ~tt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Toline Posted August 22, 2012 Report Share Posted August 22, 2012 Smart move Tom. Something about leading a horse to water...............................etc. Eric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VASI Posted August 22, 2012 Report Share Posted August 22, 2012 Ask him if he can shoot w/o a camera or a lens? Eric hahahahaha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccsnd Posted August 22, 2012 Report Share Posted August 22, 2012 My favorite. we were using a really loud generator and all the dialog was really soft. I asked for a few wild lines with the generator off. The gaffers reply was - "only a fool would do that! How will it match!? We shot the whole scene with the genny on! (there were only 2 lines) I turned around to him and just said, "The idea is to at least get the dialog without you shitty ass generator being louder than the dialog" the same day we were shooting a scene and some gel over a light was flapping in the wind and making a bunch of noise. I asked if he could fix it and was told "There is no way anybody will ever hear that!" Later while shooting the scene the director kept asking me "What is that Paper flapping sound!" I walked that day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VASI Posted August 22, 2012 Report Share Posted August 22, 2012 Is not the paper. Is the gaffer. Tuck the gelatins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OmahaAudio Posted August 22, 2012 Report Share Posted August 22, 2012 Tuck the gelatins. That's a t-shirt! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VASI Posted August 22, 2012 Report Share Posted August 22, 2012 In the last short film I have done. Shoot in 5D. No timecode. Script: The director send me to ask you about timecode. So tell me about timecode. Me: So tell me about your first love. (the director is good friend and laugh from this).. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
studiomprd Posted August 23, 2012 Report Share Posted August 23, 2012 " the writer/director thought he was a big deal. " big red flag... s/he hasn't got a clue " The DP is giving me crap for trying to good footstep sound, to reduce needed foley, around his ass loud epic and I get "his feet aren't even on camera...". " normally, --on 'real' movies'-- if the feet are not in the shot, we don't want to hear them... they get replaced (from the dialog track) by Foley on the Effects track. maybe you could have offered some wild footsteps w/o dialog. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Burstein Posted August 23, 2012 Report Share Posted August 23, 2012 maybe you could have offered some wild footsteps w/o dialog. I've been known to go off with my boom op on the same terrain and record his (my boom op's) footsteps at different speeds. If it's a small production and I know little post work will be done, they appreciate it and I don't mind doing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesse Flaitz Posted August 23, 2012 Report Share Posted August 23, 2012 I've been known to go off with my boom op on the same terrain and record his (my boom op's) footsteps at different speeds. If it's a small production and I know little post work will be done, they appreciate it and I don't mind doing it. That's what I did, and this was not a "real" movie by the senators standards so the possibility of budget for foley was quite unlikely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyB Posted August 23, 2012 Report Share Posted August 23, 2012 Quote of the day, from myself this time. To the camera op, as we are doing a shot that involves us tracking a pair of talent walking up a paved driveway which is steeply inclined and involves the camera and myself walking backwards..."Can you lose the flip-flops, please?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikewest Posted August 26, 2012 Report Share Posted August 26, 2012 Back to the post. Tell the director the talent should talk on their cell phone, phone me and I take a tap out of my phone an it will look natural and avoid intruding microphones! mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Burstein Posted August 26, 2012 Report Share Posted August 26, 2012 "Society values a properly flushing toilet more highly than good production audio" -OmahaAudio Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Toline Posted August 26, 2012 Report Share Posted August 26, 2012 "Society values a properly flushing toilet more highly than good production audio" -OmahaAudio If neither are working correctly then they both stink. Eric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAB414 Posted August 30, 2012 Report Share Posted August 30, 2012 Today, shooting at a restaurant as it's being built, with open walls facing 9th Ave in NYC. Too loud to hear yourself think. Me: What are we doing about all this noise? Producer: What? Later that day, me being snarky at a different location with construction outside: Producer: The noise outside...? Me: Nothing I can do about that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geordi Posted August 31, 2012 Report Share Posted August 31, 2012 I would have responded "It will be recorded perfectly." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Blankenship Posted August 31, 2012 Report Share Posted August 31, 2012 Marc, ... 1-No lie, first thing out of the producer's mouth, "It really comes down to what equipment you have, I mean, we've all been to film school, so we can all do sound" ... To which you might have responded, "And some people flunked film school, so they can produce." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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