Choosing an Outdoor Location for a Video Interview

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My name is Owen Roth, and in this clip I'll be talking about how to choose a good outdoor location for a video interview. Okay, so there's a few things you want to think about when choosing your location for an outdoor interview. One is the sun, the weather, because in bad weather obviously, rain, it's going to be tough, you're going to need some type of overhang and protection. But also what type of weather you're going to be expecting, whether it's cloudy or harsh clear skies like this with harsh sunlight, because that will dictate what you're going to need to bring whether it might be an umbrella or reflectors, or things like that. So lighting is one thing, and that will also might dictate where you're going to put your interviewee. You're going to always want the sun behind you if it's a harsh light like now. So you're going to want to think of what's going to be behind the interviewee based on where that sunlight's going to be. So for me, I would place my interviewee right here in this chair and I would just be in front of them, interviewing them. So the background would be this, and that will create a nice background, lots of vegetation, nothing ugly, so that should be nice, and the sun's behind me. So that's how I would set that up so you want to think of what's behind the subject and how comfortable they're going to be sitting in the direct sunlight because they might not want to talk for twenty minutes if they're just sitting in unbearable heat. So you're going to want to keep these things in mind when picking the spot. Another thing, obviously, is noise. What's it going to be like? Are there noisy neighbors? Is it a noisy neighborhood? Are there planes flying overhead? And you're probably going to want to scout the location before you choose it. And scout it at the time that you're going to schedule the interview for, not a different day, not in the morning, at night, at a different time, because you want to be there at the time, when you're scouting it you want to be there at the same time you're actually going to have the interview so you know what noises can and will occur there, because a noisy location is no good. And that might also dictate what type of audio you choose to do, whether it's a shotgun or a lapel. So there's many factors that come into choosing a good outdoor location. Like I said, this one is ideal for me because it's in a quiet neighborhood, I've got the shade of this umbrella if I need it, and I can pop that over, and I'm kind of right here with a nice background. So this is a good location for what I want, but it may be different for you.

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