For example an over head microphone boom cost approximately $300.

It appeared to be a microphone boom that had been retrofitted.

Driscoll spoke into the microphone boom projecting from his helmet.

Cables crisscrossed the pavement; camera tripods and microphone booms were set up.

No jostling television cameras or jousting microphone booms.

That would leave the afternoon free for the first walk-around rehearsals where the Director would begin working out his cast, camera and microphone boom movements.

It is used in cell-phone technology as a retractable antenna, or microphone boom, due to its highly flexible and mechanical memory nature.

Roughly 17 minutes into the episode the shadow of the microphone boom is visible moving across the wall as Basil sits in front of the typewriter.

Trailed by a ramshackle army of campaign aides and media people, microphone booms raised like halberds, he enters the store in search of votes.

A lighting engineer tested the reflectors, a sound recordist checked the microphone boom and a focus puller marked positions with a tape-measure.

"It's getting dangerous with all these big cameras swinging around," said Emil Wilbekin, the editor of Vibe, ducking to avoid a microphone boom.

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino was hit in the face by a microphone boom knocked over by a presidential bodyguard resulting in a black eye.

Zimmermann moved forward from the jumble of cameras, microphone booms, chairs, and figures, to stand in the semicircle of light in front of the consoles.

I'm all for freedom of the press - even freedom for television - but why should tennis be allowed to sell the right to stick a microphone boom under the players' noses?

The cameras, camera men, microphone booms and lighting are all also seen as the video progresses as well as sound monitors and tape recorders are all working away.

Mr. Starbuck said having to dodge the shadows of his microphone boom while following actors around on harshly lighted film sets had made him fond of very soft, naturalistic light.

The smallest and slickest of Plantronics' new M series headsets, which come in blue, silver and black, pops over one ear and a small microphone boom extends toward the mouth.

All day Thursday, as every day, television networks' big white vans muscle against the house's chain-link fence with satellite antennas on their roofs and 20-foot microphone booms hovering over the small yard.

Here, when the camera addresses the orchestra from almost any angle, one gets an eyeful of microphone booms; and more often than not, a shot of the chorus puts an idle timpanist front and center.

Drawbacks include a less optimized lighting which needs to provide a compromise for all camera angles and less flexibility in putting the necessary equipment on scene, such as microphone booms and lighting rigs.

At other times the microphone boom appeared in the frame (giving the show the unintentional nickname "Mic Shadows"), a television camera would appear on screen, a fly hovered around the head of an actor, or window curtains fell down.

Graham McCann said it challenged the "convention that television should not acknowledge that it is television; the show made no attempt to hide its cameras, allowed the microphone boom to intrude and often revealed other nuts and bolts of studio technology."

The Boom Operator is part of the sound crew, who manages to keep the microphone boom, near to the action, but away from the camera frame, so that it never appears onscreen, but allows the microphone to pursue the actors as they move.

Mr. Blair could not get much time off from his job as a mechanic, but Mrs. Blair quit her job as a part-time receptionist to be on the set and coax her girls to smile, frown or stop staring at the microphone boom.

When the Palestinian representatives Hanan Ashrawi and Faisal al-Husseini appeared at the press center for an impromptu conversation with reporters today, such was the press of cameras and microphone booms that the Palestinians had to clamber onto a table to get the word across.