What does the production sound mixer do?
The production mix team are the individuals charged with recording your live dialogue, in sync with the camera team. The Production Sound Mixer is your most important ally at this stage in the movie’s production. Although you will be anxious to complete as many setups as possible during each shooting day, a little extra time given to the sound mixer to allow him to capture scene ambience (called room tone) will pay off handsome dividends later during our dialogue editing. The production mixer will have with him a boom operator, who handles the boom mics, and usually a cable person, who will be in charge of wrangling the audio cables needed to mike the set appropriately. Usually they will record on a Nagra recorder, but digital recordings on Portable Time code DAT machines are becoming more common.
The production mix team are the individuals charged with recording your live dialogue, in sync with the camera team. The Production Sound Mixer is your most important ally at this stage in the movie’s production. Although you will be anxious to complete as many setups as possible during each shooting day, a little extra time guven to the sound mixer to allow him to capture scene ambience (called room tone) will pay off hamdsome dividends later during our dialogue editing. The production mixer will have with him a boom operator, who handles the boom mics, and usually a cable person, who will be in charge of wrangling the audio cables needed to mike the set appropriately. Usually they will record on a Nagra recorder, but digital recordings on Portable Time code DAT machines are becoming more common.
