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The best position for filming in my office gives me a blank wall as a backdrop. Looks great, helps the lighting, end up with a wonderful, natural backdrop gradi
by handrous 5y ago
The best position for filming in my office gives me a blank wall as a backdrop. Looks great, helps the lighting, end up with a wonderful, natural backdrop gradient around me in kind of a "halo". People've commented on it, unprompted. It's nice.
However, the most functional and useful layout of my room fills my whole camera backdrop with bookcases, edge-to-edge.
Here I was, right this moment, trying to decide between moving my desk back to a spot that lets me re-claim half the room for other purposes, or keeping the better-looking backdrop but having a shit room layout, and now I guess I have to worry that some people will judge me an asshole if I have books behind me. WTF.
- ghaff 5y agoPersonally, I think bookcases look fine as a backdrop. I tidied mine up a little bit but otherwise it's just what's in the background from the external webcam on my desktop system. The only "stage management" I've done is that I draped a fabric print wall hanging over some ugly metal file cabinets. I thought of getting a background Japanese screen sort of thing early on but it would be perpetually in the way.