Sound Recordist Teams

Here is how this works in practice. Our sound-recordist teams structure around a production-mixer-led department: mixer-recordist on Sound Devices Scorpio or Cantar X3 cart for narrative drama and feature work. With a dedicated first-boom operator on Sennheiser MKH 416, MKH 50, or Schoeps CMIT 5U via K-Tek Avalon and Ambient QXS poles, a second-boom utility for two-shot and crowd-scene coverage, a RF technician on Lectrosonics-Wisycom-Sennheiser Digital 6000 wireless planning under ANACOM frequency licensing, and a sound-and-cable utility for playback (Pro Tools rig or QLab Mac Mini with Focusrite Scarlett 18i20), comms (Riedel Bolero, Clear-Com FreeSpeak II), and IFB (Lectrosonics IFB Plus, Comtek M-216). Documentary and run-and-gun deployments route smaller two-person mixer-boom teams on Sound Devices 833 or 888 with bag-only carts. Studio MOS-and-sync work at Tóbis Lisbon, Valentim de Carvalho, and Porto stage facilities routes through Avid VENUE Lync.

Here is the short of it. Department lineage draws on the Manoel de Oliveira sound era (Aniki Bóbó 1942 through Belle Toujours 2006 and The Strange Case of Angelica 2010 — the longest active filmography in cinema history ending with the director's death in 2015 at age 106), the Pedro Costa minimalist-naturalist way (In Vanda's Room, Colossal Youth, Horse Money, Vitalina Varela Locarno Golden Leopard 2019, Fontainhas Trilogy with sound-design philosophy of natural room-tone preservation), and the Miguel Gomes sonic experimentation (Tabu Berlin Silver Bear FIPRESCI 2012, the Arabian Nights trilogy 2015, Grand Tour Cannes Best Director Prize 2024).

Here is how the picture comes together. Inbound ICA cash-rebates shoots building sound-department depth have Indiana Jones 5 Dial of Destiny (Spielberg-Mangold partial Portugal 2023), 1899 Netflix 2022 (Bo Odar-Friese), Frankie 2019 (Ira Sachs in Sintra), Night Train to Lisbon 2013 (Bille August), Lisbon Story 1994 (Wim Wenders), and Glória 2021 (Netflix The country's first). Sindicato dos Trabalhadores da Indústria Cinematográfica conventions, Código do Trabalho framework, Segurança Social retained-crew at roughly thirty-four percent, ACT labor-inspectorate, IVA twenty-three percent, and ICA cash-rebates qualifying spend routes through our production-services partners.