Now I've Seen Everything

Just filled in for Landon who was filling in for a guy named Paul this week on Weak Species, a USC thesis by Dan Faltz. I met and worked with David Lankton, "sound editor, sound mixer, boom operator, and sound recordist, and one half of MISO Sound." MISO Sound is an inside joke. It stands for Maximum Impact School Of Sound. To record a punch, you punch with the microphone. To record rain, you drop thousands of lavs from an airplane. That's the joke. He and Paul are starting their freelance work with a Sound Devices 722 recorder, a 302 mixer, a Sennheiser 416 short shotgun mike, and Senny ME 2 lavs on the G2 100 wireless kits. I'm really surprised by how popular these are. I guess I didn't really think the wireless kits in film school were the same stuff professionals use.

Doing a bang-up job standing in! This is 1st A.D. Dana, standing in for the lead actor. David sets the plant mike for a dolly shot that won't allow for an overhead boom (shadow).

Weak Species: masturbation, rough gay sex, marijuana, child molestation, and gardening sheers. Just like high school! Now, as the boom operator, I got to see some of this up close, like forced oral copulation in the boys showers. Quite impressive. Those actors deserve respect. I liked Dan's directing. He reminded me of my college acting instructor, Michael Mufson. He communicated well, and he showed good instincts.