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4 Nifty Techniques for Hiding Lav Mics on Your Subjects

As a filmmaker, knowing how to hide a lav on a subject is an absolute must. In many cases, having a boom operator follow your actors around with a mic is an excellent way to pick up dialogue, but if for some reason a boom won't work (like, if you want to record audio in a wide shot), a lav mic most likely will. The tricky thing about that, though, is while boom mics are kept out of the frame, lavs infiltrate the cinematic stage, so concealing them becomes a top priority. If you're not quite sure how to get your troops behind enemy lines undetected, you should check out this video in which Robbie Janney of Shutterstock Tutorials goes over four methods for hiding lav mics on your subject. Janney talks about four different methods for placing a lav mic on your subject, and if you've ever dealt with audio on professional projects before, you're probably familiar with at least a couple of them. You can place them: Read More...

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Published By: NoFilmSchool - Wednesday, 23 May, 2018

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