Welcome, everyone. Thank you for joining us again today. This is our fifth session on speaking to the press with Dr. Barb Arnott. Today we're going to talk about equipment again as well as if we should wear scrubs or something else like a suit for these interviews. Otherwise, thank you for joining us. This is brought to you by SCCM Lead. You know, you talked a lot about the equipment earlier, I think we definitely need to do another whole session looking at what kind of equipment you have, what would you recommend some of the lower end models, higher end models, because everything's like zoom and remote these days right for a lot of these interviews that we do. The best piece of advice is get the latest model computer cameras you have to borrow if you use Max as an example if you're using something in the last couple years. They've got great cameras and they actually have a great way of balancing things when it looks at foreground background and balances off. So as a bottom line, start with a late model computer, and you can add a microphone. This is my microphone. That's a Sennheiser podcast mic. And then I have these, these little lights here which are very cool. And I just said, either those another side and then I actually have a lit green screen behind me and then I, you know, put up a nice little background so what I would say is, don't dread television, enjoy it. You know, nothing else your kids, you know, there's daddy, he's on TV. How about what to wear, like, I'm in scrubs here for this but like you're in a suit, does it matter. You know, because that's naturally what you would be wearing I think scrubs are absolutely fine. You know people all the time I think it gives it, you know, some kind of authenticity. I just always wear a coat and tie because it shows respect for the anchors wearing a coat and tie. I mean, you could dress up and do that but, you know, especially if you have a little higher up and you have your name tag and whatnot there. So I think scrubs are fine. But we should do is where what you think you look best in some people are great and scrubs, like George Clooney, right, George Clooney is crazy. Some of us don't have a career out of it. I, you know, I mean I just have I have a good shirt and tie. And then, I mean, I just can't see but I just wear my shorts I mean that's all I do that so it's, it's not much of an effort to display shirt. I put I put a tie on the other day actually was fun. Wow, amazing. So what I wanted to give you as a tip is, you know, you and I had done some great stuff where you had filmed yourself. And what I was going to say is if you are going to film yourself with a camera. First of all, you want to pretend like this camera weighs 900 pounds. In other words, when you look at people kind of doing this with it right. So what you want to do is you want to hold it rock rock rock rock rock rock steady steady as a rock as you can frame yourself up and don't make any motion with the camera. And then there is this one very cool program, which is free actually, which is called prompter pro which I'm going to show you here. You're actually has this has been a script, and it also has the cameras recording me so I could go you know, whatever I can record the thing and you're going to have something very nice to do practice that. And do that anyway you don't get take your phone practice look you're still holding up the ladder level, get good, good exposure, obviously have the light on your face, rather than behind you and get used to me because it's a, it's a wonderful medium you and I had a wonderful chance last year to do a whole series on COVID. Yes, that was a great series on COVID that we filmed last year thank you again Bob for all your help with that. Otherwise, thank you everyone for joining us today. I think that is what we have today. We have, I believe, another session coming up soon. Please stay tuned. Talk to you guys soon.

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