Sticking Around with the Boom Pole- A snapshot of working from Videotelephony's Marketing Manager
Before I joined the Videotelephony team I didn’t know much about the world of video productions or the people behind them. This was back in the naïve days when I thought closed captioning was an easy task and a 30-second commercial could be shot in 15 minutes. Turns out I had no idea what I was walking in to.
My first lesson was in the art of holding a boom pole (which is basically a microphone on a stick).
While this might look easy, it actually takes someone with the build of the Old Spice...