KiraTM wrote: 21 Jan 2018, 22:06
- It was good first interview. However, you plan to make more interviews. Try to be more confident. There were a lot of "uh". I think this will get better the more interviews you do, though.
You're expecting a whole lot from people that has limited English. That's not a lack of confidence, that's a lack of English speaking practice because you're not used to it So, you "err" a lot searching for words. If this was a native speaker, I'd totally agree but not here. Note that, in Russia's schools, they teach very little English. That's why a lot of Russian barely speaks any of it (in my experience).
In the general sense, maybe you could recruit a native English speaker to do the speaking parts? Also maybe do some "dubbing" for a russian version of the video. In other words, replace the native English speaker that asked the question with yourself asking the same question but in Russian. Like that, you'll reach out to your compatriots (Russian subtitles might be a thing to do though). Or an alternative idea: write your questions down and put them up on screen.
And I had a lot of trouble understanding you, I had to relate on Google Translating the question in Russian to be able to get a grasp as what was going on. Which double down on my ideas above.
I like the idea overall.
Other technical details:
- The video feed seems to be of bad quality. I don't know if it's because the original video was that low quality or you used a low recording bitrate. Maybe look into it?
- Like Kira said, your Mic quality is basic to say the least. Look into it and also, when saving your voice; avoid using lossy (mp3, ogg...) and save that for the video. It doesn't need to be a high bitrate; Just so it doesn't sound like you're speaking through a can.
(might add some more if I can think of new ones)
