Lavalier Mic

What this is about

Lavaliers earn their place where the boom cannot go: wide shots, walking dialogue, cars, and interviews with untrained speakers. Hiding one under clothing is a craft of its own — tape, mounts, and fabric choice decide whether you get clean dialogue or constant rustle. Wireless links add another failure point, so recordists scan frequencies at every location. In interviews, a visible lav on the lapel is standard practice and bothers nobody.

A term only helps when everyone on set means the same thing by it — so what follows is how it is used, not a dictionary definition.

What runs differently here

Where this differs from the general case:

• Clothing noise is the main enemy — synthetic fabrics rustle, cotton forgives
• Scan wireless frequencies at each location; a clean channel in the morning can be gone by lunch
• For interviews a visible lav is normal — hiding is for fiction

With TillyGen

TillyGen's breakdown flags scenes with movement or wide framing where lavs are likely, so transmitters and batteries make it onto the kit list before the shoot.

Change one constraint and the consequences travel through the whole plan: affected shots are flagged, the call sheet is regenerated, and nobody keeps working from yesterday's version.