why not make boom mics green?

Unless you plan on going through a DI, chromakeying your footage, then replaceing the background... it wouldn't be worth it. For film anyway. Probably not worth it for DV either. It's often easier to hide black than green.

however, I can see this being a wise application for a green screened sound stage. I believe I have seen green fishpoles and mics on stages, not sure if it was of the sound man's own doing, or some established gear though.
 
Do you mean because you could just key it out? Well for one, if the shot weren't on sticks, then you couldn't simply key it, you'd have to do some compositing, which would be the same amount of work if you needed to paint out a black boom.

For another green would stick out like a sore thumb, and would much more noticable in some shots where a black one would blend right in.

Lots of people don't have the skills/ experience/ means to key something out (as simple of an operation as it may seem to most of us.)

I'm sure there's a few other reasons I haven't thought of.
 
Why not make an invisible boundary line defined by photoelectric cells that when breached would emit a mild electrical shock to the boom operator?
 
:grin:

I'll have to let my sound recordist know that's the new plan.
 
i'm just saying. if the boom accidentally fell into frame on a great take, it would probably be easier to remove. you know, a precaution thing. BUT, since everybody wants to make FUN of my genius idea... SCREW YOU GUYS, IIII'M OUTTA HERE!
 
Why not just ADR the entire film? Sync sound is overrated. The movies died when the Jazz Singer was born. Viva la Silent Cinema!!
 
c.g._eads said:
i'm just saying. if the boom accidentally fell into frame on a great take, it would probably be easier to remove. you know, a precaution thing. BUT, since everybody wants to make FUN of my genius idea... SCREW YOU GUYS, IIII'M OUTTA HERE!
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If it's truly a great take, you'll take the time to paint it out. Now quit complaining! :violent5: :grin:
 
ok...so you make all the worlds boom mics green....then what?

after you key it, you are left with a slightly fuzzy black hole in your footage.

you still need to fill it in with something...and it doest make the filling in process any easier.

its the same amount of work either way. even so so compositors should have no problem removing a boom mic. really, it should take only minutes.

green is not always the answer....this a kind of a pet peeve of mine...although not as much of a pet peeve as the guy who was bitching about shallow DOF....but...

it really bugs me when i see people put green over tv screens that they will comp things into later in post...it makes no sense, and in fact you make it harder on the compositor....if the screen were left alone, the compositor would have all kinds of great reflections and lighting to help integrate his screen elements....and having the black/grey colored screen is very helpfull...its just becomes a matter of blending over it.

anyway...
 
Rich Lee said:
it really bugs me when i see people put green over tv screens that they will comp things into later in post...it makes no sense, and in fact you make it harder on the compositor....if the screen were left alone, the compositor would have all kinds of great reflections and lighting to help integrate his screen elements....and having the black/grey colored screen is very helpfull...its just becomes a matter of blending over it.

anyway...
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I agree, I did a few tests for someone for a TV insert who did this same thing and it didn't have the realism it would have had if was left black.
 
see, that made my time worth reading this entire string of threads.

Rich Lee: "if the screen were left alone, the compositor would have all kinds of great reflections and lighting to help integrate his screen elements....and having the black/grey colored screen is very helpfull...its just becomes a matter of blending over it. "
 
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