Crewing for Anh Vu
November 25th and 26th, 2009
Anh Vu is doing a piece on the connection between Asian and School Studies, how it is different to be an Asian in college as supposed to other races. I came on Thursday to help him with the boom while he’s shooting in the library and the Sac center. It is really hard to hold the boom for awhile, it may seems really easy at first but after the first 10 minutes I started feeling it on my arms.
This was my first time actually operating the boom so I was really shaky and I was in a couple shots, which we had to re-do. Anh was very friendly and supportive of this so it made me feel comfortable with the whole experience. We shot in the library on Thursday and at the SAC on Friday. I had to leave early on Friday because I was leaving for Maryland, I offer to help him edit however, because I left early.
While helping Anh edit I realize some of the mistakes I was making while holding the boom stick. I did not line up the mic to some of the actors so the sound were off in some scenes. There were also other times when we could hear one actor much louder than the other. Some parts were also shaky because my arms were getting tired. Over all however, the majority of it was good and thankfully, the shots that we had to take out weren’t really essential to the actual project.
