Biden's obviously not green-screened over a background. But the mics, if composited over, would have needed to have been... or else some way used to create the transparency behind them.
But I think your larger point is that because his arm passes over the mics, they're not just one layer (the mics) composited over another (Joepedo). And that's absolutely the right logical conclusion.
Except it really looks to me, and the best of my abilities, like the mics are indeed composited over Joe, but then they masked his hand back over the mics there. It's the weirdest thing. It would take far more effort to do this than to not do it, and by doing so, it gratuitously looks less convincing. But still, this is absolutely what it looks like to me.
As I summed up, as eloquently as I could, in my longer explanation elsewhere on this thread: WTF!
Biden's obviously not green-screened over a background. But the mics, if composited over, would have needed to have been... or else some way used to create the transparency behind them.
But I think your larger point is that because his arm passes over the mics, they're not just one layer (the mics) composited over another (Joepedo). And that's absolutely the right logical conclusion.
Except it really looks to me, and the best of my abilities, like the mics are indeed composited over Joe, but then they masked his hand back over the mics there. It's the weirdest thing. It would take far more effort to do this than to not do it, and by doing so, it gratuitously looks less convincing. But still, this is absolutely what it looks like to me.
As I summed up, as eloquently as I could, in my longer explanation elsewhere on this thread: WTF!
Given this other view, they must have inserted the mic on this footage too?