I was supposed to be a tourist extra for a new CBS pilot, DOUBT but at the last minute they switched me to be a boom operator at a press conference on the steps of courthouse. This was great on a couple of levels. As a tourist extra, I would have been banished out to the hinterlands of extra non-exposure but as a boom operator, I wound up right on the front lines with lots of camera exposure. I was the front boom operator at the press conference so was in lots of the main shots of the main characters. I was on camera so much, they couldn't use in any of the follow up scenes because I'd been so exposed on camera in the first scene.
An actual boom operator came over to demonstrate how we were to hold the pole to make it look authentic, how to hold it in front of the person depending on the distance, how to pivot the boom from one person to another, etc. It was kind of a meta experience because as we were pretending to be boom operators he was working right along side of us off camera being a real boom operator capturing the actors speaking their lines.
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An actual boom operator came over to demonstrate how we were to hold the pole to make it look authentic, how to hold it in front of the person depending on the distance, how to pivot the boom from one person to another, etc. It was kind of a meta experience because as we were pretending to be boom operators he was working right along side of us off camera being a real boom operator capturing the actors speaking their lines.
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