Been Experimenting With the Shot...

After watching the video--have you thought about maintaining the mic angle and the current background, but facing the chair to the camera? I know it's probably frustrating having people continually dissatisfied with angles, so that's obviously just my two cents. Great video, though! Loving the new production quality regardless.

Lacey Hart

Hey Colin. Just watched the new vid and I have to say the camera angle is really distracting. Having you continually making eye contact with the camera out of the corner of your eye seems unnatural and like your audience isn't the main focus. Think you need to maintain the head on angle and maybe elevate to compensate for the mic in front of your mouth. Just my 2 cents. Love the channel and the great info you provide. Keep it up!

Jason McNamee

Colin, the audio and lighting on the Dunkirk episode was great! As for the new angle, I like it! You should test out what it looks like if you angle your chair towards the camera but leave the mic in the same place. Keep on keeping on, brother!

Christopher Toffolo

You gonna tell Lola to give you the one shot?

Owen

The audio quality was perfect on the Dunkirk episode. I don't have much of an opinion on the mic placement, but glad to hear you will be upping the gain. I'm probably going a little deaf, but even with headphones and the volume cranked up all the way the last one was a little quiet. Keep up the great episodes.

Donald Eckels

I love this! Much more open, and I think it looks better with the slight angle anyway. Gives a better sense of your surroundings. Possibly unpopular opinion here, but I actually really like the chair rather than a desk. I feel like it strikes the balance between produced/formal and conversational content better than a desk might.

Lacey Hart

I think that angle is a huge improvement, by I will say I like you behind a desk best. You could still use that mic on a table stand. Regardless, I'm loving everything you're putting out.

You'll probably have to go the Dave Rubin set up eventually. Or Rogan with the desk. Either way it's the content brother! 🤘🤘🤘

Bryan Silva

Much better. The mic was unfortunately very distracting. However, at the same time, there was a HUGE audio improvement. Trade offs...

Corey Adams

This is certainly an improvement. I found the mic in front of your face odd and distracting. I wonder how natural it will look like from this angle though. It's hard to tell until I see you moving and talking.

Scott Miller

Yeah I like this angle more

Jason

Looks good. Glad you kept Mega Man in the shot!

Dennis Parker

From someone who has had a hearing impairment for a long time having the mic in front of your mouth made it difficult to use your lips to 'hear' the words. This angle would provide at least enough of your mouth to help.

Meagan Milton

Looks great Colin

Looks awesome!

Thanks Colin. You're definitely improving things, and taking feedback well, which is awesome!

Dan117

I have not watched episode 30 yet. Based on the picture in the test post and this one, I'd say this looks better. I'll add to this after I watch today episode and give some more feedback if necessary

Michael Candelaria

Yeah man that's definitely an improvement. Jumping from using the H4N to this far superior mic the sound improvement is massive. That said, while audio perfectionists might want that thing super close I was curious how your original setup would have worked if the mic had been lowered slightly to not hide your face and/or raised the camera up and aimed it down a bit. I do think it's important that your face isn't obscured so whatever happy medium you can find with audio and camera angles is great. It's looking and sounding better each time man.

Christopher Lee

Yeah, thought the mic in front the face was odd, but we got why you had to. Sound quality was great. This shot here looks good, but may get a little painful for you over time. That is up to you. Keep up the good work.

Casual Misfits Gaming

Much better, doesnt cover as much of your face. Also just a side note really noticed and appreciated the bump in audio fidelity in the latest episode, glad to see you constantly striving for improvement.

Seth Eden

Perfect dude!!

Brad Russell [Toukz]

This is a big improvement, keep on keepin' on!

ByteRoster

I like it a lot! Now you just need a bourbon in the shot somewhere.

Scott Rabideau

Looks better but hopefully it's not too uncomfortable for you

NuFlash

Looks better for sure just make sure you feel comfortable looking off to the side like that

Dan Cadogan

Yes I like it... also can you sit upside down.. lol totally joking

Looks better, but looks like it's going to be uncomfortable for your neck.

Khalil Sadi

I definitely thought the mic looked strange in front of your face, and I think this angle will work better. You should try to maintain eye contact with the camera, though, and this might make that more difficult

Drew Packard

That's a much better angle for the show. Oddly it makes the set seem more dynamic somehow too in a really good way

Ryan Ashlee

Yeah, I like that angle better. The mic in your face looked a little weird. Loved the episode. Going to see Dunkirk on Thursday, so I appreciate the historical primer.

Red March

I like it but would you still be able to look into the camera and retain audio quality? I'm no more of an expert at this than you, if both of those qualities can coexist with this shot then I'm all for it.