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Hiding mics on talent

Hiding mics on talent

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Hiding mics on talent

Traditionally, narrative scenes like the one we're about to record would be covered with the Boom Pole. However, I went over boom poles extensively in my course Foundations of Video, Cameras and Shooting. So be sure to check that out for boom techniques. What I want to talk about in this course however, is hiding mics. There are two places that we can hide mics when it comes to a narrative scene. One is onset, and the other one I want to show you right now is hiding mics directly on talent. And in this case, I'm talking about hiding wireless lavalier mics. Now, when it comes to hiding mics on talent, the reason we need to hide it is because it's a narrative. We can't just show it like this. For documentary or corporate, perfectly fine to show the microphone like I have right here. But for narrative, we don't want to break that fourth wall, so we gotta keep the mic hidden. So I'm going to give you some techniques for hiding that mic right now. But the first thing to be aware of, is…

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