You're on set, working hard. What do we call you?
Post-Production : What is the appropriate term for the 'aduio guy'? by Jonathan Krimer
What is the appropriate term for the 'aduio guy'?
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I haven't found a good name yet. After reading Wikipedia, I put myself down as "Recordist" on my last thing.
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We call our audio guy Craig.
On the last feature I did, we called the audio recordist the "Sad Sound Guy" because of all the crazy things he had to deal with while shooting exteriors. (planes, barking dogs, car alarms, an owl hooting at 2pm, etc...)
Lol, @D Marcus! I'm assuming you are referring to picture credits? We usually have a minimum of two "production sound" guys during the shoot, one is the Production Mixer, and the other is Boom Operator. On occasion, depending on the budget, we have one production sound guy who does both, he mans the boom and carries a portable production mixer on his body at the same time… in this case, we refer to him as the Production Mixer in credits….. otherwise, we call our guys Ryan and Mike. :)
With respect to film credits the "head" of the sound department would be the "sound mixer", the second member is the "boom operator", and sometimes a third person titled "sound utility" is present. Similar titles would apply for second and third units. For television the title varies widely with sound recordist being popular. The LACK of these proper terms from credits is usually a red flag for poorly produced independent films since 70% of what you see is the dialog sound.