Best Boy Electric
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- WHAT YOU DO: A best boy, also known as Assistant Chief Lighting Technicians, is responsible for the day-to-day operation of the lighting or grip department on a TV or film set. A best boy's many responsibilities include the hiring, scheduling, and management of crew; the ordering, inventory, and returning of equipment; overseeing workplace safety and maintaining discipline; completing timecards and other paperwork; stocking expendables; loading and unloading production trucks; and planning and implementing lighting or rigging of locations and/or sound stages.
EDUCATION: Electrical training; plus familiarity with math, lighting instruments, and film and TV production. Courses in art, photography, and electrical engineering can be helpful.
USEFUL SKILLS: Leadership skills, communication skills, physical fitness, knowledge of a hundred different lights.
HOW TO GET IN: Become an apprentice or intern in the Electric/Lighting Department.
CAREER PATH: Become an apprentice to get some experience as an electrician, and then move up to best boy. The next step is to become a gaffer, the head of the electrical department.
PAYBACK: Median annual salary: $41,630.
DOWNSIDES: Long hours, physically demanding.
FUTURE OF JOB: The number of jobs is expected to grow 10-19% during the 2013-23 decade, which is average.
NETWORKING: The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees offers an apprenticeship and journeyman program:
www.iatse-intl....
The Professional Lighting And Sound Association also offers resources:
www.plasa.org/
Video produced by students at LAHSA (Los Angeles High School of the Arts) working with Gigniks' career media program.
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heard more real things here than I did in film school. thank you.
Today is My first Day Being a Best Boy‼️ #WishMeLuck
Good luck, how did it go ?
Not only educational but useful and interesting. I’d like to hear more from this guy!
The end was best. Bigger the light source, better it looks... go big or go home :D
great advice
Good stuff. Question is what book would someone read if they want to be best boy electric?
A few cinematography books will help with general lighting concepts too. Such as the five C's of cinematography is a classic
1:38 it kills me to see a cable coiled like that. What happened to under-over?
We dont wrap cable over under.. Just clock wise. Thats more of camera or sound cables that get wrapped that way. Imagine Wrapping 120lb piece of 4/0 over under lol.