"Even when doing live radio or television shows in front of small studio audiences, Merman, like any performer, had to pitch her delivery to the mikes and cameras, not to the people".
" Alternating between moments of intense privacy — they wept openly in the offices of senators but would not say whom they met with — and their desire to promote their cause, family members inhabited a strange world of boom mikes and cameras and procedural votes.
So there's a real need for smartphone "privacy" cases that block sensors, mikes and cameras from surreptitiously gathering intel on us, but still let you use the phone for calls and texting.
There are grotesquely comic moments which have the Kubrick eye: During an exchange with the enemy, three TV newsmen, mikes and cameras at the ready, back diagonally across the action, crouching like some low-level conga line--funny, until we realize they're in mortal danger.
For Schumer it means at last he has a younger colleague without a famous name who will not grab the mike and the camera from him as he lunges towards it for his drug of choice - face time with the public.
But who stands behind the camera, operates the boom mike, and powers the whole production?
He already owned a digital camera and a microphone, and he improvised everything else he needed, using a broomstick to hold the mike, and his grandmother's old wheelchair as a dolly for the camera.
Huff endures the hall-of-mirrors spectacle for a while, as the boom mike hovers and the camera pans between his face and the television screen.
I get the mike and I said 'Herr Blatter.
