So we're at home for another few months (October apparently), and it's prompted a few of the Virtual Coffee Breakers to talk about buying actual green screens so that they can properly project fancy, fun stuff behind them.
"So I ordered one, and it came," said one person, "But I didn't realise it doesn't come with a stand, and I had nothing to hang it up with."
I couldn't help wondering what he's done with his carpet of green fabric. Picnic blanket? Maybe a table cloth for an impromptu game of billiards?
Another VCBer has ordered a 'pop-up' green screen, which is much like a pop-up tent. Let's hope it doesn't suffer from creases! And also that he's able to pop it down again! ...which anyone who's ever tackled a pop-up tent might know, is rather like trying to pack an octopus into a duvet cover.
So there's that to look forward to I guess - colleagues pretending they're in Back to The Future, or chatting to you from the crest of a rollercoaster... or the set of Blackadder. And you can bet that they'll keep on one-upping each other in the never ending quest for approval and laughs.
Hard to blame them really - it's like a microcosm of social media, and I'm not immune to that stage.
Anyway, regardless of me attention-seeking this way instead of that, I do keep my camera switched off, and I join the VCB mostly on mute, like a lurker in the background. Besides, I don't know what I would project behind me? I can't think of anywhere I want my colleagues to think I am other than where I actually am, which would be in front of a bit of green fabric, suspended on coathangers in my spare room. I don't need that kind of attention.
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