Lights, Camera, Goofiness

So, one of the projects at work is to start creating teaching tip videos. Turns out it is much harder than it would seem. I had figured that it would involve more than jsut standing in front of the lights and the teleprompter. It was a bit of a learning curve to catch on to the finer touches of standing in front of the camera.
Too much moving and ya look like a goofball.
Too little movement and you look like a zombie goofball.
I learned that the closer ya resemble a used car salesman, the better.

The hands, the facial tics (wow, lots of those), trying to an-nun-ci-ate clearly, trying to not look like I'm reading... No matter what, I look like like I am outta my element.

I showed Brett some test video and we could not stop laughing. He has a new-favorite activity: stop the video clip at any point, take a still image and naming it. He's hilllllllarious. Although, to be fair, it's comedic gold.

Ah well, the things we do for our craft.

I had a lot of fun, though. I got to dress up, stand in front of a bunch o'cameras and play Guy Smiley. The video's director (yes, we have an in-house director and an in-house producer) was super patient and a great coach. Hopefully the editing does wonders.