SlashGear Japan
Our traditional Sunday “Week in Review” is a little late this time around, but we hope you can forgive us as we’ve been trying out something new. To mark the official launch of SlashGear.TV – where you’ll be able to find all of our hands-on, unboxing and review videos from SlashGear and all of its sibling sites – we’ve switched to a video Week in Review. It’s also a chance to introduce our two new writers, Bree Pearson and Ashley Ahern, who will be hosting each week.
Remember, you can see a better quality version by clicking over to YouTube and choosing ‘watch in high quality’.
This is our pilot episode, and so we’re hoping you’ll have plenty of feedback. Agree with Ashley and Bree? Think they’ve got it all wrong? Let us know your thoughts and suggestions in the comments. We’ll also be picking the best of the comments from all this coming week’s articles to talk about in next week’s Review, so if you’re feeling opinionated then now’s the time to get involved!
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6 Responses to “SlashGear Week in Review – June 23rd”
Blackstar June 23, 2008
OK, feed back:
1. Get decent quality microphones; either tie-clip or hand held, wired or wireless. Don’t use the onboard camera microphone.
2. Don’t shoot in public or high traffic areas with lots hard surfaces to avoid sound echo and reverberation.
3. Use a camera light or shoot in a more well lit area to get light on your subject’s faces. Don’t have the background be brighter than the foreground. If you have to, use the camera’s built in ‘backlight’ function for those situations.
4. Don’t shoot under air conditioning or fan vents. The sound of wind on the camera mic is drowning out the hosts voices.
5. Having the introducer walking around behind the hosts while they were speaking was very distracting. It looked like he was lost.
6. Putting in pictures of the items you are discussing periodically would help.
Other than that, it was perfect! :P
+4Ewdison Then June 23, 2008
Thanks for the input Blackstar. We will try to get it better on the next episode
NeutralBree Pearson June 23, 2008
Heyy Blackstar!
Thank you so much for all your input! We realize we didn’t have this one perfect and we are going to change a lot, the comment you left about pictures in the video was awesome we will definitely be implementing that! Thanks again and feel free to email me with any other suggestions : Bree at slashgear.com
:)
NeutralBlackstar June 23, 2008
No problem, glad I could help. ;) Loved the out-takes. Be sure to save them for future blackmail purposes. :D
Oh, one tip about framing subjects in camera I forgot. Don’t be afraid about putting the top of the camera frame to almost touching the tops of the subject’s heads. People often try to put the center of the frame on people’s eyes or faces, giving you too much headroom and making your subjects look short. Giving a little free room on the sides for people to move slightly is a good idea too. That way you’ll still be in frame even if you move a bit.
Look forward to more in the future. Good luck. :)
NeutralFupDuckTV June 30, 2008
Good pilot episode… it could use some tweaking. Get some some good microphones (doesn’t have to be expensive). I use cheap tie mics for my webshow. They work really well. Also, rig up some cheap lighting too.
I think your format is not too hateful, but you didn’t say anything that I couldn’t have read quicker from an post scan. Be alittle more dynamic and energetic. Add some personal commentary.
I can’t wait to see you grow this show.
DaVe – FupDuckTV.com
NeutralEwdison Then June 30, 2008
Thanks for the input guys, you can see the first episode here
http://www.slashgear.com/slash.....012307.php
Neutral