I’m working in Auckland New Zealand as the international A2 for Americas Next Top Model season 14. I’m facilitating the needs of the sound department, managing equipment and mic’ing our cast and talent. We use Sennheiser wireless transmitters and a variety of lavaliers, Tram, Countryman, and Sennheiser.
It’s a beautiful place with great people and an amazing pool of talented professionals that would shame most from the states. All of the film production here in the last decade has done a lot for their industry, the Lord of the Rings series, Narnia, King Kong, Avatar, have been keeping the locals very busy.
The scenery is spectacular of course and the weather is quite a thing! We’ve been shooting in extremes for 2 weeks, it’ll be sunny in the morning, pouring rain in the afternoon, clearing up within 5 minutes, then rainy and windy again! So having lots of ponchos and trashbags handy for our sound mixers is very necessary, along with Zeppelin windjammer’s for our shotgun mic’s to help eliminate the wind noise.
I highly reccomend a future visit to New Zealand, either for film and TV production, or just for fun. It’s beautiful, affordable, and they speak English!
