EmailEvery video journalist runs into this problem at some point.
How do you work with a subject who wants to partiicpate but does not want to be identified or appear on camera?
There are lots of solutions to this, most of them pretty raggedy
You can backlight them so that you can't see their face
You can only shoot their hands
You can shoot them from behind
You can blur their face
Like I said, all pretty raggedy
But in this story, Spectrum News 1 MMJ Kamady Lewis comes up with a FAR more elegant solution to the problem
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