Monday, July 20, 2009

Boom Mike Operator From Schindler's List to Boom Mike Operate New Film


Boom Mike Operators are not only required to record audio, but additionally must avoid being recorded on video, a multi task few can even fathom fathoming.  This is just what Hank Regan will be doing in his new movie "Listening From Above."

Most of you know Hank from his star role in Schindler's List, an otherwise indie level feature that quickly became a cult favorite due to its out of this world boom mic-ing.  The rest of the staff praised Regan from, quite literally, the shadow of his mike.  Regan decided to give an unkown director by the name of Speilberg a chance in the  picture.   Speilberg was so distracted by the outstanding caliber of the boom mike-ing that he frequently had to fight the urge to shit his pants and ultimately developed IBS.

Throughout the film, Regan held the mike at breakthrough angles with protractor precision - 45 degrees, 50 degrees, you name it.  He once even impaled a leading actor, utilizing his sternum as a support beam to, and I quote, "steady the sound."

"I tell you, when he presses that record button we get chills" Schindler's List writers Thomas Keneally and Steven Zaillan remarked while trembling and struggling to hold their jaws at a normal height.  
It is rumored that the audio quality in Regan's new film will be so high that it won't even register in the average human's brain.  It will end up sounding just like the audio in any other movie.