Lean video production: hardware

Jörn Loviscach

Lean video production: hardware

Presentation Surface

• No “analog” blackboard or whiteboard• Tablet (Wacom display, Windows Tablet PC,

possibly Android, iPad)• Visualizer, document camera,

web camera (plus illumination)• Interactive Whiteboard

Camera

• Webcam,tablet’s front-facing camera?– Record on computer– Mixed results, inflexible positioning

• Camcorder, digital photo camera– Tripod– Clapperboard

Microphone

• Audio quality is key!• Don’t use built-in microphones,

phone headsets.• Professional headsets/earsets• Acoustic decoupling; pop filter

Teleprompter

• Read while looking into the camera• Text needs to be flipped upside down,

e.g. with web browser:<div style="transform: scale(1,-1)"><p>Your text goes here.</p></div>

Studio environment

• Lighting• Background– Bookshelf etc.– Green screen– Illuminated white cloth

• Acoustic treatment?

Lean video production: hardware

Camera

Presentation Surface

Audio

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