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22 PRODUCTION SOUND & VIDEO – Summer 2023 posts that screw into the bottom of the front of the vest to support your bag and a pair of clips that help keep your bag secure to the rig—all without adding any additional tension or strain to the user's back or neck. The weight is distributed evenly to rest on the hips and avoid the risk of injury. MY EXPERIENCE I am a second-generation sound man who was lucky enough to grow up on Hollywood sets going to work with my dad, Edward L. Moskowitz CAS. My fascination with the magic of movies and television began with me sitting in the sound booth with my dad on Golden Girls and Empty Nest, watching the pros make television. I am one of the few lucky sound men doing the job that they imagined they would have when they were a kid. In my teens, I attended the performing arts magnet program at Pacoima Middle School and worked with other kids my age to bring our own short stories to life on the school's audiovisual equipment. Looking back, I see what a great learning experience I had at a young age. I feel privileged I had the opportunity to learn from my own father and worked with him on several shows at the end of his career, including sitcoms Anger Management and Ground Floor and the single-camera series The Guest Book. There were many other talented mixers, boom operators, and utilities who also taught me the tricks of the trade along the way. I moved between sitcoms, such as Call Me Kat with Dana McClure before he retired and continued with Elyse Pecora when she took over this past season, to joining Bruce Peter's crew for the last few seasons of his career on The Conners and Bob Hearts Abishola. Whenever possible, I worked on single- camera series like Supergirl and Lethal Weapon, filling in on feature films, numerous commercials, pilots, and low-budget projects to hone my skills. I joined the union in April 2012 after completing most of my Y-16A hours on iRob! (thanks to the UPM Tony Carey). Working my way up from a trainee utility, I took any opportunity offered to me as a second or third boom and this gave me the opportunity many times to work fishpole scenes. At the beginning of my career, I was usually the younger man on the crew and, like most young men, I never thought about my back or shoulders. I grabbed that pole, got out there, and showed them what I had. Luckily, I never injured myself in the over-11-year career I have enjoyed. And I plan to use this XO Boom to make sure that I never do; to protect myself from injury and ensure that I can continue my career for the many years I still have ahead of me. DEVELOPMENT I first met Adam Tiechman and his business partner Ariel Benarroch at the sound mixers swap meet hosted at Film Tools back in the summer of 2020. After the lockdown began, many of us found time to finally go through the gear we'd collected. The parking lot at the swap meet that morning was filled with some great deals on equipment, both useful and collector's items. This was also the first time many of us had