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Scott Clements (Production Mixer from Burn Notice) Interview Part 1
SC: When I was very young, I had the task of video taping my mom’s ballet company performances. That led to my high school years where I always had a video camera in my hands. My main exposure to sound was through the high school band. When I was in college studying electrical engineering, one of my good friends (who was studying directing) suggested that I would probably enjoy a career in sound for the movies. Turns out, he was right!
SC: When I was in film school, my classmates were always busy shooting some project, and I made sure I was their sound man. It didn’t matter what it was, I would be there doing sound. I quickly got a reputation as the class sound man, and next thing you knew, my classmates’ were landing on outside projects (no, or very low pay). Those productions needed a low to no pay sound mixer, so I would weasel my way into those projects. It turns out, there are a lot of people willing to give you a job if you will do it for free! The more projects you land on, the more your reputation grows.
SC: After I graduated, I found it very difficult to find anyone that was willing to pay me to work. The class that came after mine in film school was busy learning all about sound, and they had a guest lecturer coming in by the name of Peter. They asked me to come in and help Peter set up the equipment, just to make his life a bit easier. I was happy to do it.
After his lecture, we went to have lunch and I discovered that Peter had a job coming up, and the production didn’t have a boom operator budgeted for him. I told Peter that I would love the opportunity to come work for him… no pay of course. That shoot went well, and then Peter asked me to come on another short job where he didn’t have a boom operator, but on this one he was willing to pay me $50 out of his equipment rental. And there it was… I was being paid.
SC: When I made the step from boom operator to sound mixer, it was like starting over again. No one was willing to give me a shot as a mixer. I was looking for another miracle like the chance meeting with Peter. And it came from a production coordinator named Elaine. She was in a position on a new TV series where she didn’t have a “big” sound mixer to hire. She had used me on a smaller gig, and was willing to stick her neck on the line to give me a chance on this bigger series. The series tanked, but Elaine and her producer both liked me. They used me on a few more projects and things continued to go well. Lucky for me, I was riding along on their coat tails when they landed on the Burn Notice pilot. They sold me to their producers, and I have been on the show for three seasons, and we are about to start the fourth season.
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