Unit 2 part D: Work effectively with others *

This is a picture taken by me during the a shoot on our first day. in this shot you can see that I am holding a boom as my roll was the boom operator. the boom operator records the sound in the scene, you could record it straight to the camera mic but the sound quality would not be as clear and good.  

Being the boom oporator was an important roll as if you do not have the boom pointing in the right direction during the time that you want to record than the sound will not come out as clear and could not be in synchronized with the footage, so you have to be watching the actors or the thing you are recording at all times because if the actor suddenly turned its head facing the other way you will no be able to capture the sound as well as if they were facing towards you. so you would  have to put the boom up higher in the air to try and capture the sound over their heads. These are the general problem that you face when recording sound. if the sound does not get recorded well and correctly then you might have to do a reshoot or dub the voices over but it's  hard to make it look perfect, the same with a boom so the best thing to do is make sure you record the right sound in the first place.  You also have to look for and