Back from that whistle-stop visit to New York. I landed Sunday and was in a perpetual state of jetlag until I left on Wednesday. But! It all went very well. My colleague Laura snapped the above pic mid-shoot: your correspondent is sitting on the right and that mirror I’m peering into is a neat little device called an Eye Direct. It lets me keep eye contact with the subject while they look directly into the lens. Without it you always have to make a compromise: either you have eye contact (and therefore a more natural interview) but the subject is looking away from the lens; or you have them looking into the camera (and therefore at the audience) but they are much less comfortable.
.18 Planned improv
.18 Planned improv
.18 Planned improv
Back from that whistle-stop visit to New York. I landed Sunday and was in a perpetual state of jetlag until I left on Wednesday. But! It all went very well. My colleague Laura snapped the above pic mid-shoot: your correspondent is sitting on the right and that mirror I’m peering into is a neat little device called an Eye Direct. It lets me keep eye contact with the subject while they look directly into the lens. Without it you always have to make a compromise: either you have eye contact (and therefore a more natural interview) but the subject is looking away from the lens; or you have them looking into the camera (and therefore at the audience) but they are much less comfortable.