Equipment for Conducting a Video Interview

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Before you can start your interview, you need to make sure that you have all the necessary equipment. First and foremost, you need to have a good video camera, a 3-chip camera. You want to make sure that the camera has inputs available for high quality audio gear, so you don't want to be using a built in microphone on your camera, you want to use some that you connect to the camera. The standard audio gear that you're going to be using is a lavalier microphone, like I'm wearing right now. Hear that? And the lavalier microphone is going to give you good, directed audio, so right now, the microphone that I have here is directional, so it's picking up just my voice, and not my surroundings. You'll also want to make sure that you have a good pair of headphones. If you can't properly monitor the sound you won't pick up audio glitches here and there. A big part of what's going to make the interview successful is having a high quality audio signal so it's very important to make sure that you're monitoring it carefully and that you're using the best equipment possible to capture the sound. In addition to the camera and the audio gear, you need a tripod. Now you won't always use a tripod when you film interviews, but for the most part you will. You want a sturdy tripod. There's no sense in having an expensive camera sitting on top of a cheap tripod so make sure that your tripod is sturdy. You'll also want to have some form of lighting, because even though natural lighting is often a good option for your lighting, you want to have your own lighting that you can use, either if you want to be shooting entirely indoors with no windows, or if you want to be combating natural light, or compensating for it. Accumulating all this equipment is a bit of an investment but it really is necessary if you're going to get a good high quality interview that looks good and sounds good.

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