Making hand gestures is good body language when being face to face with someone. Matt I wasn't trying to bring down your confidence or anything. Matt, you are a natural when it comes to narrating. You've got this great Groucho Marx air about you. And man do you look French! Your ancestors must have been and so is your name.
But God what have I started?
It is just that on a small frame mostly filled with the narrator in the screen such two handed symmetrical gestures need to be deminished a little because the frame enhances the gestures to great extend and thus make them rather a bit too obvious whilst in real life they would be absolutely fine. Your hand motions are very natural and I would not want to change them one bit!
But if you sit in the frame and are filmed up close, like the last video you did. A simple thing like hand motions - especially two hands is blown out of proportion. The environment in which you are viewed is limited and somewhat artificial by the very nature of the way the frame is set up. It is just a small part of your world we are seing - which is fine for this type of video. But you do need to change body language/motion a little bit to accomodate the small world you are inhabiting in the frame. Try using one hand and make the same gestures. It'll work better. Or zoom out a little with more of your body visible in the frame. You can flail whatever you want with a bigger canvas. ;-)
Making hand gestures is good body language when being face to face with someone. Matt I wasn't trying to bring down your confidence or anything. Matt, you are a natural when it comes to narrating. You've got this great Groucho Marx air about you. And man do you look French! Your ancestors must have been and so is your name.
But God what have I started?
It is just that on a small frame mostly filled with the narrator in the screen such two handed symmetrical gestures need to be deminished a little because the frame enhances the gestures to great extend and thus make them rather a bit too obvious whilst in real life they would be absolutely fine. Your hand motions are very natural and I would not want to change them one bit!
But if you sit in the frame and are filmed up close, like the last video you did. A simple thing like hand motions - especially two hands is blown out of proportion. The environment in which you are viewed is limited and somewhat artificial by the very nature of the way the frame is set up. It is just a small part of your world we are seing - which is fine for this type of video. But you do need to change body language/motion a little bit to accomodate the small world you are inhabiting in the frame. Try using one hand and make the same gestures. It'll work better. Or zoom out a little with more of your body visible in the frame. You can flail whatever you want with a bigger canvas. ;-)
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