Fight Video Fright
You know the feeling
Walk into a room full of people, remove your camcorder's lens cap, and suddenly your would-be subjects are aswash in a sea of anxiety
There they are: your relatives, your friends, eyes squeezed shut, heads lolling, muttering nonsense, primping neurotically, crawling with tics and twitches, looking and acting mor elike loonies on a day trip than people you love and admire. You hoped to catch them at their natural best; instead, you're accumlulating evidence for commitment.
These people are victims of a new form of "stage fright." Fear of being recorded, on film or video, is increasingly common. Its roots, I'm sure, lie in that same primitive fear that damned the still camera as an instrument of the devil, an unholy device designed to capture the human image and thereby steal the soul.
Could be. We won't know for sure 'til later. In the meantime, there are a number of things you can do to make video victims more comfortable. Who knows, they might even hav…
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