Noiz2
Sound Ninja
Well "in pocket" yes but a boom operator is not bringing equipment to the shoot the mixer is. And for a union gig you as the employer would be paying 35% or so more to the union directly.
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SK
How to hire a boom op
- Thread starter Chamber005
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Well "in pocket" yes but a boom operator is not bringing equipment to the shoot the mixer is. And for a union gig you as the employer would be paying 35% or so more to the union directly.
Cheers
SK
Wait .... You want to get a good quality audio poor but you want to pay 1/2 of the Union rate? Something doesn't add up. If you want good audio you need to be willing to pay a professional a decent rate. The really good guys probably work for more than the union standard. Please keep in mind that if you want quality you should be willing to pay for it.
mainstreetprod
Veteran
Find out what kind of experience the boom op or mixer has. With broadcast or with film? I once hired a guy with plenty of broadcast experience who insisted on keeping the mic 3 feet away. Needless to say he was let go.
Noiz2
Sound Ninja
Now before you start jumping on his case, he's looking for a boom operator not a mixer with a full rig. And I have no idea what the going rate for small indi gigs is where he is. For a boom op on a no budget film $250 is not bad. And I was talking union scale. IA cuts deals left and right with small productions. You get classified as an experimental film and god knows what the "union" rate is, a lot lower than scale I'll guarantee you that. Most of the listings on CL are "credit and copy" so $25/hr is a mayor step up.
Chamber005
Carbonite Member
I'm just hiring someone who understands good mic placement, can monitor the levels on my FR2LE and that, preferably, has his own mic and boom pole.
I've got a couple people in mind to work with on post sound.
We've been doing everything thus far using wired lavs. So it's kind of a two-part scenario where the mic he has would have to mesh with the lavs we've been using. In the end if I have to buy a mic I'll go ahead and do it (since no decent shotgun mics are available for rent in Chicago), but obviously it's one less expense if the boom op has a mic that can mesh with our current audio.