- Keep your camera steady.
It's annoying, you're gonna scare your coworkers,
they're going to think you're in the middle
of an earthquake.
Can I get quiet on audio please?
(laughs)
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- Don't use that.
- Was that good? (laughs)
- Hello everyone, welcome to Fab Friday's.
- Let's do this.
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- [Bobby] Hey everybody, it's Bobby Burke,
Interior Design Host from Netflix's Queer Eye.
Privacy in your home, we all know is super important.
Our home has always been that place
where we get away from the world.
Now that we're all working from home and virtually,
I wanna teach you how to take back your space
and your privacy.
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My first tip is to find a space
where people can't walk behind you, see what I mean?
That way you don't have to worry about your spouse
or your roommates, or your kids walking in
and interrupting your video call and disrupting your work.
Curating the space behind you is very important as well.
You want it to reflect your personality,
but maybe not too much, 'cause again, this is work.
You don't have to use the same area for your video calls
that you would for work.
For your video call you can use a chair,
you can use a tripod,
you can use your kids, make them hold your device.
And if you're not wanting to fuss about
what's going on behind you, do a virtual one.
I've created a lot of really cool ones
that you can get at bobbyberk.com.
The wallpaper I used in Tyreek's apartment.
Or the wallpaper that's in Jonathan and Tans glamor room,
in the Season Five Loft.
Working in my office that I'm in right now.
Either way, there's a lot of fun options
to make working from home a whole lot easier.
Another thing that's really important is camera angle.
Making sure that your camera is up here,
not down below looking up your nose,
not up above looking down your shirt.
Your most flattering angle is straight on.
Not only are camera angles important,
but the angles of your eyes are important.
You don't want to be looking at yourself in the screen
or looking at your coworkers on the screen.
If you're speaking, you wanna be looking
directly into the eyes of your coworkers,
which is right there, in that camera.
Another thing to take into account is lighting.
You never wanna have your overhead lighting too bright.
Either use a ring light, if you don't have a ring light,
put a lamp next to your device.
So that way your face is getting direct light
instead of over or under light.
If you can position your device in front of a window,
that's going to be your best bet.
Make sure that window though is in front of you
and not behind you.
When the windows are behind you it's going to backlight you
and no one's gonna be able to see your beautiful face.
Audio is another really important thing when taking a call,
you always wanna make sure you minimize the noises.
Keep in mind that the sounds you hear in your house
are a lot quieter than your coworkers are hearing them
on their speakers.
The slightest bit of noise in your house can sound like
an ambulance coming through their house at home.
(ambulance siren ring out)
Since there is literally no physical separation
between our work and personal lives right now,
you really need to make sure
that when you're in that spot, you're working,
if you're not in that spot, you're not working.
One of the things that I found
that if I don't have that separate space,
I work way more at home than I ever did at the office.
So keep that space separate and keep your mind clear.
Nothing is more important for our mental health right now
than to be able to close that device
and focus on our family.
(baby cries)
See what I mean? (dogs bark)
So whether you've always worked from home
or working from home is your new norm,
always make sure you keep in mind lighting,
audio, camera and eye angle, and keeping your home
and your workspace completely separate.
To make sure that you're not only making work a priority,
but also self-care and mental health.
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