From the course: Lighting a Video Interview

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Technical concerns

Technical concerns

Okay. You feel like everything's pretty much ready to go and I'll just throw this out there from my point of view often being the interviewer or the director. The thing I hate the most is to be in the middle of an interview and then have something technical blow up. It just completely ruins the mood. It can make the subject sort of get off their game. They feel like they're repeating themselves. They can become frustrated, and it's things like, the camera going dead with a battery, or a wireless mic going out, or oh, I ran out of tape or the cards full. You must have a preflight checklist. Things you do before you say, okay, I'm ready to roll, that you sort of, check off in your brain either mentally, or. Maybe it's as far with some of these new, more technical cameras. You actually have a real checklist. What do you do before you say you're ready to roll? >> Well, it's just that. There is a checklist that comes from experience. And, like I said earlier, you know, any kind of mistake,…

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