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Winter 2023 – LOCAL695.COM 27 Drew explains, "The location was very exposed to the sun and the wind in the afternoons, the wind comes up as the land heats from the sun, causing thermals to rise, and this wind comes in off the ocean. We had to deal with that almost every day. There was a lot of wind, a lot of exposure, and difficult booming, because there were hard shadows visible from the bright sunlight, plus we had multiple cameras. And there was another thing that was an issue with the villa, there were cicadas. It was a year with a particularly big hatch of them, and we were shooting at the peak of their cacophony. I did a lot of wild tracks of them to try to build up an archive of variations that would give the post team some ammo to help find a way to blend it all. I've spent my career working my butt off to try and create quality production tracks, and we try to get pristine tracks as much as we can, but that's not always possible, sometimes for factors beyond our control. In this case, Matthew Wood and Josh Gold and their post team were diligent in trying to preserve and massage the production tracks as much as possible, to see if they could find a way to utilize what we had delivered. Thankfully, they managed to stitch it all together seamlessly, between clever processing and pulling occasional words from other takes when necessary. Amazingly, they were able to work with and augment most everything we gave them, and ultimately, everyone was extremely happy with results (and the cicadas are still in there; not as a problem, but as part of the soundscape)." On the original Knives Out, Mike Primmer was the Boom Operator, with Boston local Utility Ryan Baker. Mike was not available for the sequel, so Patrick Martens got the call. Drew had met Patrick on Mank, as he had come in when Drew needed three Boom Operators for the big party and banquet scenes (more scenes with eighteen different characters speaking!). Drew was eventually able to convince the producers that it would be worth it to bring Ryan onto Glass Onion as well, because he had done such great work on the first film overseeing and organizing the wiring of that sizable cast, and more of the same expertise would be required. Drew's microphone of choice for interiors is usually the Sennheiser MKH 50, and sometimes the Schoeps CMIT 5U (L-R) Edward Norton, Madelyn Cline, Kathryn Hahn, Dave Bautista, Leslie Odom Jr., Jessica Henwick, Kate Hudson, Janelle Monae, and Daniel Craig. Photo: John Wilson/Netflix © 2022.