Un Posto al Sole: Finding My Place in the Sun

The main reason I did videoblogging training at Sun's Menlo Park offices a couple of weeks ago (rather than at some other time) was to get my colleague Teresa Giacomini ready to film the OpenSolaris User Group meeting she ran in Dresden this week. Looks as if she handled it just fine!

photo by stiefkind

Yet another in the videoblogging tips series: how to get good footage of engineers who may not be accustomed to being filmed.

I trained four of my Sun colleagues in videoblogging, and, for practice, they filmed me talking. Some of the resulting video seemed useful, so here it is (in bite-sized pieces).

This week I trained four of my Sun colleagues in videoblogging. It was very hands-on training, with the intent that they actually produce a finished video by the end of the two-day course. We started with setting up the cameras and mics right away, and I had them practice following an active speaker (me, imitating Jeff Bonwick's pacing). I wasn't really thinking about the fact that they were filming me, so I was completely unself-conscious. Which was good in some ways, not so good in others. But some of the material may be useful for videobloggers in general, so I'm editing and posting it in spite of what seems to be inordinate emphasis on my chest.

Tired of those baggy, boy-cut t-shirts we all get at conferences, Teresa Giacomini decided to do a run of OpenSolaris shirts for women. Much more flattering to the female figure. Want one? Well, they were very popular and went fast (lots of women in OpenSolaris). Join your local OpenSolaris User Group - maybe they have a few left. ; )