Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Video Deposition Tip: The mic is the jury's ear...

...and not metonymically, either. Imagine a jury member is listening to your expensive expert and you lean into the box and rub their ears or hit them with papers. Kind of vitiates all that preparation, no?

So get a good video producer to put the mic in the right place.
Leave it there.

Don't move it somewhere you think looks cooler.
Don't throw it on the table in a dominance display.
Don't lean your papers against it.
If you like clanky jewelry --hip hop chains or that huge emerald necklace you bought after the last big award-- keep it away from the mic. If that's impossible, take it off for those few hours of the dep.

You have the jury's ear. Be nice to it.

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