The boom operator is the assistant to the production sound mixer on a TV show, film or commercial. What a boom operator does: A boom operator is responsible for holding a microphone called a boom mike ...

Ken Nightingall, a veteran boom operator who is known to many “Star Wars” fans as “pink shorts boom guy,” died Tuesday at his home in the United Kingdom. He was 92. Nightingall worked on over 47 films ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. Boom in the shot! Hell, the boom operator is front and centre in this week's movie-making lesson. Mr ...

So what do mushrooms sound like? Does anyone know...? Are they squishy or buzzy or just silent? This fun experimental animated short film titled Sounds Good follows a curious boom mic operator "on a ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. As it was his first time on a movie set, Gosling said he was really looking to soak up as many ...

Broadcast audio and location sound engineers sometimes (and quite rightly so) complain that they are never paid a compliment on an excellent audio job – audio only ever seems to get noticed when there ...