This thread has great tips! If I have one person to help crew, they manage audio. I'd rather have good audio and fixed camera positions than a moving camera and lousy audio. If I had a second person, I'd have to decide between a boom operator to replace the fixed boom or a camera operator.

For work, bigger crews make life so much easier; it's amazing what a solo person or a crew of one or two can accomplish, though - and these tips really do help.