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recording could distort (digital recorders are particularly
unforgiving of such ‘overmodding’). If you are too far away,
they will sound off microphone (‘off mic’), as if they were on
the other side of the room. Practice will perfect basic
microphone technique.
10 Choose interview locations without intrusive or intermittent
background noise. The intrusive will drown out your interview.
The intermittent will make editing difficult (the background
noise, such as a truck passing, may suddenly
disappear as part of the edit, which sounds both unnatural and
distracting).
11 If interviewing in a room, take all telephones off the hook and
put a ‘Do Not Disturb’ sign on the door. Avoid areas with hard
surfaces such as wooden desktops, glass doors or windows,
which offer unsympathetic acoustics. The recorded voices
reverberate around the room and can result in poor, booming
sound quality.
Pictures
Pictures are a key element of storytelling. We all know the current
exchange rate – supposedly 1000 words minimum.
Taking pictures is easy. Taking good pictures is another matter.
An indepth account of focal length, depth of field, aperture
settings, shutter speed, etc. requires more space than this book
allows, so we will concentrate instead on how to avoid taking truly
awful pictures. If you are the content provider for a small to
medium-sized organization, you may have to include Chief
Photographer among your roles. You need pictures that are worth
posting on your page.
Your two main components are usually your subject and what
surrounds it. Much of the dynamic and structure within a
photograph comes from the relationship between the two – both
spatial and informative. Remember, however, that the subject is
just that and must be the main element of your picture. Too often
people do not work close enough to their subject.
Spatial – this refers to the size and positioning of your subject.
Too close and it squeezes out the surrounding context, too far