001what's up wildcats i'm here to talk to you about video wait yeah [Music] i want to tell you a little story about something that actually happened to me yesterday i went to target to get some supplies for my new classroom and a random stranger decided to ask me what the price was for a particular vacuum or whatever on the aisle i was super confused until i realized i walked into target wearing a red shirt and khaki shorts it reminded me of an important lesson which is that your appearance can very much dictate what people assume about you now obviously wildcats this is not an ideal situation but what we can do during this remote learning time is we can make sure that the work that we submit is our best so that people don't make
002the wrong assumptions about us number one and probably the most important thing that you can do is adjust the camera lens placement what we're trying to simulate is a conversation and what's one of the main rules of a conversation eye contact so you want to make sure that your camera lens is exactly where your eye line is not too high or else it'll look like people are staring down at you and not too low it'll look really weird and like you're some kind of giant right at eye levels what we're going for number two lighting we're used to seeing people being lit by the sun that's a big light source above us that gets diffused through the atmosphere a lot of fancy words there what it means is try to find a window or something
003with natural light to light you and if you have a lamp in your room always put it above you not below you putting light below you is basically only acceptable at campfires and the final tip and probably my favorite is depth the general idea is think of the space that you're recording in and try and put as much of that space behind you in the frame that you're presenting to whoever you're sending the video to and that's it wildcats three steps zero dollars huge gains and you will be looking your [Music] best