The microphones are shotgun mics. They're meant to be under a person and held on a boom. They are meant to extend past a person, not held to the person's face. What you're seeing is shotgun mics held at his knee level. These types of mics are meant to get past loud noises.
The top of his head is not missing. It's overexposed due to overcast.
Interestingly enough, as a vfx guy, the things that actually look greenscreened are the mics. They have green spill all over them. What I would wager is they had some junior vfx guy add the mics into the shot and he thought he’d add some “realism” by having his hand break the plane in front the the mic and did some roto work. Because the mics are definitely way too large when they get behind his hand, like way too large.
Did you see the different angle of the video? It's clearly a muffled shotgun mix at his knee level held by a guy with a boom. The camera angle that this supposedly staged shot takes is to his right and the mix is under his elbow on the left.
Have you ever worked on a film set? The mics mufflers make them look really funny even in real life. Couple that with overcast lighting with a shitty broadcast compression and you get this.
There are instances where he is on a set, mostly the ones in the White House taking the shot. Those are all green screen and fake lighting. This is not one of them.
You can't try to believe something into existence. That's not conducive to our cause. I've worked on many film sets and all of our shots where we accidentally capture a boomed shotgun look like this.
Those are shotgun microphones often extended past the person. So it's not what you think.
Describe for us dummies please:
Why do the microphones look to be a fake overlay on top of original video?
And also, why does the top of his head look missing at the end? Overblown whites contrast or...?
The microphones are shotgun mics. They're meant to be under a person and held on a boom. They are meant to extend past a person, not held to the person's face. What you're seeing is shotgun mics held at his knee level. These types of mics are meant to get past loud noises.
The top of his head is not missing. It's overexposed due to overcast.
Careful you are making sense...
So what is your opinion of all the comments above jumping on this as definite proof?
People are entitled to their opinions.
You are correct
Thank you for that. It's tiring trying to debate people who want to believe things into existence.
I work in film. We see this all the time.
Interestingly enough, as a vfx guy, the things that actually look greenscreened are the mics. They have green spill all over them. What I would wager is they had some junior vfx guy add the mics into the shot and he thought he’d add some “realism” by having his hand break the plane in front the the mic and did some roto work. Because the mics are definitely way too large when they get behind his hand, like way too large.
Shotgun mics are huge especially with the muffler on. They're about the size of stuffed animals.
Did you see the different angle of the video? It's clearly a muffled shotgun mix at his knee level held by a guy with a boom. The camera angle that this supposedly staged shot takes is to his right and the mix is under his elbow on the left.
Have you ever worked on a film set? The mics mufflers make them look really funny even in real life. Couple that with overcast lighting with a shitty broadcast compression and you get this.
There are instances where he is on a set, mostly the ones in the White House taking the shot. Those are all green screen and fake lighting. This is not one of them.
You can't try to believe something into existence. That's not conducive to our cause. I've worked on many film sets and all of our shots where we accidentally capture a boomed shotgun look like this.