- Dressing
Check your dressing, wear professional clothing. Avoid too much trendy wear or party wear. Avoid distracting your viewers from the useful information you're sharing.
- Keep Mobile Horizontal
If you are recording video by mobile phone keeps the mobile horizontal while recording video.
- Keep away from noise
Take care that at place of video recording, there should be silence. Move to a quiet environment or at least isolate yourself and your recording device from noise. The most common noise culprits: heating or cooling vents, doors closing, dogs or sirens.
- Enough Light on face
At place of video recording, there should be enough light on your face.
- Avoid Light Reflection while video-recording
Light reflection on white board reduces readability. So see from place of recording device (mobile/ handycam), there is no reflection of bulb or window. If so, adjust board to any other place.
- Stop Echo while video-recording
Because of echo, your words can not be heard clearly. A Room, where you are recording the video, should be open enough to stop echo.
- Mobile Position
It is required that mobile should be at center of white board. Your device should be on stable support. Let the camera be a quiet observer. For stability, put it on any one place (If anybody wants to stability by handheld then imagine that your recording device is a very full cup of hot tea!!!). A shaky or constantly zooming camera is a huge distraction from the teaching message
- Covering Area
Cover area which is inside of white board. Don’t consider any area outside of the board. It should be covered body portion from your head to waist.
- Keep mobile in Flight mode
If you are using mobile for video recording then keep it in Flight mode. This will prevent notifications or phone calls from popping up in the middle of your recording.
- Don't move from your place.
Don't move near or Far from your recording device, while recording a video.
- Length of video
Length of video should be 5 to 15 minutes. Break a topic into segments and make a short video for each segment.
- Give relevant name
Give relevant names to each video as per subject of video. Don’t give common names like video1, video2 etc.
- Don’t keep book with you while recording
Don’t keep any book with you while recording video. It does not seem good and professional.
Note: If you find that surrounding noise is more than your voice. Then you can download LG Camera app in your mobile. It has facility to record audio from microphone.