This ad campaign would have been a simple one for sound if not for the suite we’d chosen to film in. After dressing and lighting each room, there was simply no space for crew beyond the camera and my boom operator, so the solution was feeding the director and clients comms into a separate suite and then routing two talkback channels to talent earwigs so the director could communicate with our Santa and Elf separately to keep their reactions to one another’s performance tweaks genuine.

I love being able to use my equipment to side-step problems and keep the day easy to make; get in touch if you’ve got a tricky shoot that calls for complex comms!