Media Folk Recent Zoomscape Roundup Late Summer 24

Let's start with a nostalgic reminder of how for many, an idyll first emerged.

Yes. Strong bookcase game indeed. Befitting of a broadsheet journalist. Those were the days, hey. Note use of corner-room angling. And pleasing to see the decent webcam placement, which could even be a smidge higher.

This filmed setting, despite not being a zoomroom, shows potential for us. Here, with talking head that's likely had media training. From documentary around a tragic N England accidental drowning. Taking her seat at the front of an empty meeting room.

We've all done that. Especially useful to write on any whiteboard behind us. Here though, the chair rotates 180. It looks quite cool. Unusual view of vacant room. Yet why not start off this way 'round? With your tools to hand it'd work well. And as long as you've smoothly set it up so, you can swivel you and webcam to use the writing-wall as and when. Which'll also bring decent engagement.

Then I noted an American campaigner in his daytime sun.

Another distracting screen of two halves.

Yet he too curates a look, I suspect. As evidenced by getting himself fully framed so as to display his slogan T-shirt.

Then see this wall of cogs.

What's fascinating about this, is the author concerned maps brain science onto how we ought best develop and deliver our messages. So her backdrop definitely says something.

A football journo next. Can you guess where from?

Light good. Eyeline good. Framing, well, all those candles?

Both presenting and giving rolling news commentary, here's a lady whose takedowns of deluded, slippery, divisive policy proponents often go viral.

Her chosen home rig surprisingly has her pair of beloved union jacks chopped out.

Onto someone with a wealth of media experience. This peerless, impartial, feared political interrogator across the board here allowed to deliver his personal 'centre-right' analysis on a pressing issue of the British day. With flourished editorial élan. From what seems like a hotel room. That second screen on the wall would prove useful in our hands, mind.

Despite his distinguished career on-screen, the only time his gaze goes camera-ward is often, as here, when he finishes his point.

Finally, another potential hotel room. This time dialling in from LA, Peaky Blinders creator, Steven Knight.

Sensing he's using behind-the-lens nous, angle slightly askew, lighting adept. Yet that webcam must surely be raised. Seldom looking at it does make you wonder, where's his mind wander?