dimanche, février 22, 2004 Is it just me, or have people noticed more and more films featuring boom and shotgun mikes? I just watched Something's Gotta Give just now, and the boom mikes were featured so much in the movie that I think they should have been given attribution with the credits in the end. It could be seen hovering over every single scene that was shot - what gives?This is something that has been bugging me for quite some time now - ever since Analyse This came out. (you know, the one with Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, and Lisa Kudrow.) That was the first movie I watched which featured the boom mikes - and I thought I was going nuts in the cinema because nobody else seemed to notice, and nobody seemed to talk about or refer to the annoying little stick which wasn't supposed to be in any of the scenes at all. I found (still do) find this incredulous - there was this one scene which the mike was at least a full THIRD into the frame! That's a lot of screen-space. I thought that it would get better, but it only got worse - I think the next time I saw more mikes was the other Jack Nicolson movie, with Helen Hunt ... As Good As It Gets. Amidst the tiny little checkered tiles (which JN refused to walk on), there it was again - the boom mike. And there again, in What Women Want. Is this some weird, twisted game of six degrees of separation in mike-world? Or are all the sound-men in Hollywood just wimps with no upper-body strength to keep the mike up and out of the movie frame? [addendum: 
boom mike 
shotgun mikes [boom-boom-boom shake the room] |
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