1 Sound and video
‘In the beginning there was silence’
The sound teams
The sound team will be led by the sound supervisor who may have a number of sound assistants. The sound supervisor will be responsible for the overall sound output but may be helped by a boom supervisor who will work with the sound team on the studio floor operating microphones fitted to the sound booms.
For location work there will still be a sound supervisor, but the role will be different. The sound supervisor may work alone to record the location sounds, which are then passed to a dubbing mixer and post-production sound team who put all the sounds together at the editing stage.
The studio sound team
It seems to be stating the obvious to say that the sound team’s job ...
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