by Joern Loviscach

2. Lean video production: hardware
Jörn Loviscach

3. Lean video production: hardware

4. 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

5. Camera
• Webcam,
tablet’s front-facing camera?
– Record on computer
– Mixed results, inflexible positioning
• Camcorder, digital photo camera
– Tripod
– Clapperboard

6. Microphone
• Audio quality is key!
• Don’t use built-in microphones,
phone headsets.
• Professional headsets/earsets
• Acoustic decoupling; pop filter

7. 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>

8. Studio environment
• Lighting
• Background
– Bookshelf etc.
– Green screen
– Illuminated white cloth
• Acoustic treatment?

9. Lean video production: hardware
Camera
Presentation Surface
Audio

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