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Talking Heads; Choosing Your Video's Background

Whether in commerce or operating a not-for-profit, you're still in the business of getting out your important message. Currently, the best way to do this for virtually everyone is via the web video.

Quite often, the best way to get short, important, weekly or daily messages to your target demographic is by using the old fashioned Talking Head Video.

The talking head is probably used more often for two main reasons; 1) It's the simplest to setup. 2) It's completely versatile in its application. It can be humorous or serious, informative or instructive, promotional or sales oriented.

There are several elements that make or break a talking head video. This article is about the background. The background is one of the all-important, stage settings, theme altering elements and is therefore not to be taken lightly or treated like an afterthought. A bad background choice can ruin your efforts of getting out a professional appearing video.

Here are some background types that have proven very successful based on their usage by noted speakers and corporate media outlets.

1)In the early days of news broadcasts, notably from the BBC, a plain beige wall behind the talent was common. All though this is very successful in keeping attention on the talent and therefore the content, it can be quite boring and should probably only be used for very short segments. In my opinion, 30 seconds is too long.

2)Curtain. Simply shoot the talent in front of the closed living room or office curtain or shades.

3)Projector screen. Angled and lit correctly, a home video projector can be used to shoot anything one desires behind the talent. The versatility of this option is priceless. Also, simply shining colored lights and a simple white light with deft use of shadows produces an interesting and professional looking backdrop.

4)Chroma Key or Green Screen. Paint one wall, or a temporary panel behind the talent the correct color of green (RGB = 0, 255, 0. Or CMYK = 63, 0, 100, 0.), and post production software can insert any image or running video desired. This is a high tech version of the Projector Screen option above. Examples of this method can be seen at EZWebPlayer.com.

5)Long Room. If one watches Broadcast or Cable TV long enough, the Long Room background will be noticed. The long room is a deep background yards deep behind the talent in which ongoing activity is taking place, for real or staged. The Weather Channel uses this during special events as do many networks during telethons and election coverage programs. Care must be taken to make sure that the busy room full of folks working in an office setting are well schooled to ignore the camera, and are far enough in the background as to not be a distraction. Field of focus is a good tool here.

Be creative. Make your own. Whatever looks good without being too distracting, works. Other good choices include book cases, plants, interesting wall covers or paneling. Or, just pointing the camera at the talent sitting in front of their computer monitors. It can be fun choosing what to show on the monitors while recording.

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