From the course: Lighting a Video Interview
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Interview backdrop
From the course: Lighting a Video Interview
Interview backdrop
Jim, sometimes we just have to unify things. Maybe I'm traveling around the world and all I can get is my hotel room for interviews, and I want something really simple and consistent. Maybe we just have a terrible room and I need a backup. Sometimes you just want it to be very simplistic. A very popular look is neutral grey backdrop or white. Something very minimal. When is it okay in your mind to switch over to a back drop? >> Well back drops are a really excellent way to have absolute consistency in you know, interview setups when that's what is dictated by the style. But the one thing I would call into mind is that there still needs to be some standards that you want to impose to maintain the consistency, especially, because that's what it's all about. When you've have gone to a backdrop. >> Yeah. >> Generally, you want that consistency, so things like, you know, making sure you have a consistent distance between the subject and the camera, the subject and the background…
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