Connect for interview by clicking this link:
https://vimeo.com/live/guest/gbg22em637c
Allow access to microphone and video camera, you will be placed in “green room” and I will see you at the time of recording inside a production studio.
If you feel confident, we can record a better audio locally on your computer! Try it: connect to this link, best in Chrome browser, allow access to your audio:
https://squadcast.page.link/unku
We can do an interview without your local audio recording, but then your recorded-over-network audio will be worse than this recording via Squadcast. Audio quality really matters. Please try to record locally too.
For best quality video, follow these instructions:
- Face directly a window with daylight – broad daylight from a window gives the best lighting, with minimal shadows. Alternatively, use two sources of light at eye level, forming a triangle with your face. Window should NOT be behind your back!
- Place your phone or computer with camera on a stack of books, so that camera is at your eyes’ level. If you are facing down at the camera, then your face angle is less complimentary and ceiling is seen in the background, which is suboptimal.
- Prop the phone in landscape orientation, do not hold it in hand, if you use a phone.
- Use headphones, so there is no feedback audio echo loop during interview.
- Best distance between you and the camera is a stretched arm’s length (or your head will fill the entire screen & your face will be distorted by a wide lens angle)
Perfect explanation of the best positioning and lighting for a video interview. 2013 (!):
Examples of positioning and lighting during interviews
- Hostage video (bland wall behind person), skin glare (must use powder!)
https://diagnosticdetectives.com/tag/dr-pablo-gelber/
This is his Instagram (not contrast!): https://www.instagram.com/paugelber/
- Looking down at camera. Screen reflected in eyeglasses.
https://diagnosticdetectives.com/tag/dr-matthias-steinwachs/
- Looking not at a camera, but down at a window with person (me). Ventilator humm due to use of internal computer microphone:
https://diagnosticdetectives.com/tag/dr-hans-joachim-schmoll/
- Poor light positioning from only one side. Good directional microphone:
https://diagnosticdetectives.com/tag/dr-ben-cowling/
- Zoom (low quality), poor lighting:
https://diagnosticdetectives.com/tag/dr-eskild-petersen/
- Zoom (poor audio and video), too close to camera:
https://diagnosticdetectives.com/tag/dr-randy-cron/ - excellent microphone and enunciation, but looking down at the screen:
https://diagnosticdetectives.com/tag/prof-stephen-evans/