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[…] world, they're amazing. Alan Sapper : Well, the number of Academy Awards they got! The number of awards they got […]
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[…]sp;PW: Welsh. Firmly Welsh. And don’t disturb me during the Wales-England matches – ever! 04’39”MS: I see, right, well that’s telling us. Of the awards that you’ve received, which are the ones that stick in your mind? […]
[…] of rubbish as an operator so it's in your interest to actually get that person to be good because it reflects on the Sound Recordist. You can be the best Sound Recordist in the world but if the Boom Operator is not getting anywhere close to where it wants to be then you're not going to go. You won'[…]
[…]re not normally allowed to listen back to it – mainly because there wasn’t time – you had to get on with the recording… I used to try and do my best to let members of the groups and the artists themselves and the musical director to take part in the decisions on whether it was OK with them and[…]
