Sound for Video Session: Allen Williams - Boom Operator

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  • čas přidán 15. 07. 2024
  • 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 CZcams 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
    B&H: bhpho.to/2Cbt6mY
    Panasonic 12-35mm f/2.8 OIS Lens
    B&H: bhpho.to/2i6s2gv
    AJA U-Tap USB video capture box
    B&H: bhpho.to/2PMAE8v
    Copyright 2019 by Curtis Judd
    Ethics statement: Some of the links above are Amazon.com, B&H Photo, or other affiliate links.

Komentáře • 32

  • @charlesisrecording
    @charlesisrecording Před 5 lety +4

    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!

  • @luzten
    @luzten Před 5 lety +3

    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.

  • @BasicFilmmaker
    @BasicFilmmaker Před 5 lety +3

    LOL! What a total geek out session! Love It! 👍

    • @SoundSpeeds
      @SoundSpeeds Před 5 lety +2

      Oh yeah man. Total geek here!

    • @LearnLightAndSoundSessions
      @LearnLightAndSoundSessions  Před 5 lety +4

      When you get the audio nerds together... 😀

    • @BasicFilmmaker
      @BasicFilmmaker Před 5 lety +3

      @@@LearnLightAndSoundSessions @​Sound Speeds
      Thanks for taking the time. Now I know what all those pesky "sound people" were doing on set. 👍

  • @zedoktor
    @zedoktor Před 5 lety +1

    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
      @curtisjudd Před 5 lety

      Thanks Cool Mark D, and Allen for being so generous with his time.

  • @nickr5213
    @nickr5213 Před 5 lety +1

    This is the interview that needed to happen!

  • @TevfikFikretBakan
    @TevfikFikretBakan Před 3 lety

    I saw this today. Lords of the audio. It's nice to have you together.

    • @curtisjudd
      @curtisjudd Před 3 lety +1

      Thanks for watching Tevfik!

  • @ChrisPFuchs
    @ChrisPFuchs Před 5 lety +4

    Great interview guys!

  • @markowens8255
    @markowens8255 Před 5 lety

    One of your best interviews very informative learnt a few new things thankyou

  • @pwoblem
    @pwoblem Před 5 lety +1

    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
      @SoundSpeeds Před 5 lety +1

      Yikes. Sorry dude. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out.

    • @LearnLightAndSoundSessions
      @LearnLightAndSoundSessions  Před 5 lety +2

      Thanks antefjante, sorry to hear about the production audio and best wishes in post!

    • @pwoblem
      @pwoblem Před 5 lety +1

      @@SoundSpeeds appreciate it alot!

    • @pwoblem
      @pwoblem Před 5 lety

      @@LearnLightAndSoundSessions Thanks curtis! :)

  • @mychalsimmons4177
    @mychalsimmons4177 Před 2 lety

    Awesome

  • @mlentsch
    @mlentsch Před 5 lety

    Wow - great stuff. Interesting guy.

  • @ytb917
    @ytb917 Před 5 lety

    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!

  • @ytb917
    @ytb917 Před 5 lety +1

    boom op seems like a stressful job! it actually seems more difficult than the acting itself.

    • @LearnLightAndSoundSessions
      @LearnLightAndSoundSessions  Před 5 lety

      The good thing is that there is a dedicated person to worry about sound in the middle of the set action.