Films that considered sound recording

 Birdman (2014) - Directed by: Alejandro González Iñárritu

Sound recording by: Adam Sanchez

Birdman is a film about an actor (Michael Keaton) that is making his comeback by directing and starring in a Broadway play. The film is shot as a continuous take but is cut in some scenes (invisible editing). The boom operator would be present in the rehearsals of the scenes as the operator would need to know where to place the mic at what time. The operator would be as important as the cameraman. If the boom operator did not know where he should place the mic it would cause a problem in post-production; some dialogue would be quieter than the rest of good capture dialogue.

In Stubborn I would ask the director to go through the scenes about three times to get what movement I would have to make to capture the best sound possible. Sound is important and I need to same level of sound capturing for each character, location, subject etc.

Hunger (2009) - Directed by: Steve McQueen

Hunger has one of longest takes in film history. The conversation between characters Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender & Father Dominic Moran (Liam Cunningham) lasts 17 minutes. I appreciate the sound operator as he/she had one of the biggest tasks of not getting the boom pole in the shot. We can see that radio mics were not used as Bobby is shirtless and I'm sure Father  Dominic is not wearing one also. Again, the rehearsal of the shoot would have boom operator heavily involved as if the boom is in shot then they would have had to start again.

Lost River (2015) - Directed by: Ryan Gosling

Sound recording by: Gail  Carroll-Cole 

Lost River used sound recording in a very interesting way. I went to a Q&A with Ryan Gosling & Matt Smith back in April, they revealed some interesting way of capturing sound and recording Automated dialogue replacement (ADR). Actor Matt Smith recorded some ADR off his iPhone to give the film a more experimental & more personal feel. I think the ambient sound in Matt Smith's narration created realism for the viewer, even though some audience members would not of noticed it. Having watched Lost River again after the Q&A, I did notice some unconventional techniques for a feature film by a well-known Hollywood actor. Ryan Gosling was inspired by the likes of David Lynch, Derek Cianfrance and Nicolas Winding Refn.

Source: imdb.com