What you wear during a video shoot can make or break the whole production or cause nightmares for small children and housepets. Here are some simple tips to think about before your shoot.
We hope you’ll find them useful, and of course you can always contact us with any questions about professional or do-it-yourself videography.
Do NOT Wear…
- New clothes that may not be broken in or comfortable yet. You don’t want to be squirming or constantly adjusting during the shoot.
- Clothing that blends in or highly contrasts with the background color of the shoot setting. Ask whoever is in charge of your production to help you with this.
- Clothing with tight patterns or stripes. This can cause an effect on video called a moiré pattern; moiré is French for “looks like crap”.
- Jewelry that is reflective or “jingly” since it can distract your viewer as you move around.
- Clothing that has no place to attach a lavaliere or lapel microphone and transmitter.
- Clothing that only looks appropriate from the waist up. It’s not always safe to assume you’ll only be recorded from the waist up.
A few bonus tips…
- LADIES – Make sure your hair will stay where you want it. You don’t want to be messing with it during the shoot.
- GENTLEMEN – Run the thin part of your tie through the loop and use your clip to hold just the thin part, that way your clip will hold your tie in place without showing.
- Angle the lenses of your glasses down a bit by tipping the bows up off your ears slightly. This should help to reduce glare from lights.
By the way, if we’re friends on facebook you may enjoy some local Indianapolis conversation regarding this post while it was being written.
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