Whats the most frequently-seen Film Flub?
It has to be the appearance of the boom mike. The interesting thing is that while one person may see a boom mike in a shot, another may not, depending on where you see the film. The “masking” of the film (the frame around the screen) can be different from one theater to another, exposing the boom mike sometimes, covering it in others. Often, even though you don’t see the mike in the theaters, you might see it on video, since the conversion of a movie to video picks up a little extra space at the bottom and top of the frame. At any rate, if you see it, it’s a Flub. For a more in-depth explanation, see Film Flubs 1999, Pages 3-14.
