This Zoom session for client included 2 cameras, lights, green screen and boom mic
Whether you’re zoomin’, go-to-meetn’, skypen’, web-xn’, or google meetin’ up, the typical challenges to overcome are universal: tinny sound, poor video quality and connection, guests stepping on each others statements, screen shares that accidently appear with personal information not intended for group use, oh my ;) and many times, a webinar host or moderator that isn’t properly trained in the basics such as eye contact, pacing, fill lighting, etc.
Ok, we can shed a little light on the subject for you. Even if we have to come to your office and maintain safe social distancing procedures, it’s better to have a 2nd pair of hands to watch your back. Little things like, aiming the web camera properly, testing your mic and your speakers, adjusting levels if using virtual backgrounds, all come into play. You don’t have to be a video producer, and we don’t have to be experts in your subject matter, but together teamwork makes the dream work.
More professional tools like a video capture device to use a higher quality camera, some lighting, whether a beauty ring light or, just knowing how to use overhead lights or window light, how far to set yourself from your real or fake backdrop, come into play when your audience or colleagues are interacting with you and form their opinion of what they are seeing and hearing. Another great tool is an external USB mic, either sitting on your desk, clipped to your shirt, or held overhead by a little boom pole, the way you sound is maybe your most important component of your presentation.
Hope this helps, give us a call if you want to kick some things around as you prepare for the “virtual meeting landscape” future we all face.