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Subject framing

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Subject framing

- The first thing you do when you walk in any room is assess your background and try to find it. I always find it easier to go handheld with this, so you don't have a tripod that you have to move around. So as we go around and spin around the room to asses it as we're going, I like this dark background that's going on here. I like the windows are coming across. The problem is Dan usually wears a dark coat, so he may blend into this background, so I want to avoid this black scene. Just spin around more, I like the blue texture we're getting on that wall. Oh, I'm seeing that TV though. TVs are never good 'cause one, you don't know the content that's on them, two, they can cause light and flickering on your scene. I just spin around more, blue wall's nice, we see a little kitchenette though, we're going to want to crop that out. As we come around here, we see these nice windows, this nice background, that's nice. I think this could be a good rough frame. Let me zoom in a little bit…

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