here's an example where the guest talks A LOT on his own, sometimes for minutes at a time, so the host makes the guest take up the whole screen, then when the hosts asks another question he comes in from the side (while still keeping the guest in the frame) - example with exact timestamp: youtu.be/jamU6SQBtxk?si=ehAaH…
But if you want to do the least editing possible, just having both you and the guest side by side would look the most professional with the least amount of editing.
So, in my opinion, having the guests side by side means I'm not context switching back and forth within 2 seconds of each other, I can just move my eyes to the left or the right depending on who is talking, or I can look at the person not talking to see their reaction to something.
A couple things too: Whenever the guest is talking I always find it distracting when the host makes comments like "Right, yeah, uh huh, yeah, right, yup, exactly, true". Take a look at that episode with Jon Blow on the Game Engineering Podcast and the episode with Casey Muratori I linked. Listen to how the Host interacts with them, then read the comments of all the people praising the host for not making unnecessary comments.
The number 1 comment on the Casey video is "Here's a small thing that is actually a big deal: you let the interviewee talk without constantly interrupting them. You'd be surprised how often this is not the case."
When asking questions and the guest is done answering it, you don't need to do a summary or anything like "yeah that makes sense, so you're saying that xx and yy and bb which allows you to do xxx. I can see how that makes zzzz better". Just move on to the next question or find a way to segway into the next question.
Also - Derek is super cool and you should definitely talk to him
The switching back and forth when someone talks is distracting.
here's some side by side examples:
or if you have 3 people you can do it like this:
here's an example where the guest talks A LOT on his own, sometimes for minutes at a time, so the host makes the guest take up the whole screen, then when the hosts asks another question he comes in from the side (while still keeping the guest in the frame) - example with exact timestamp: youtu.be/jamU6SQBtxk?si=ehAaH…
But if you want to do the least editing possible, just having both you and the guest side by side would look the most professional with the least amount of editing.
So, in my opinion, having the guests side by side means I'm not context switching back and forth within 2 seconds of each other, I can just move my eyes to the left or the right depending on who is talking, or I can look at the person not talking to see their reaction to something.
A couple things too: Whenever the guest is talking I always find it distracting when the host makes comments like "Right, yeah, uh huh, yeah, right, yup, exactly, true". Take a look at that episode with Jon Blow on the Game Engineering Podcast and the episode with Casey Muratori I linked. Listen to how the Host interacts with them, then read the comments of all the people praising the host for not making unnecessary comments.
The number 1 comment on the Casey video is "Here's a small thing that is actually a big deal: you let the interviewee talk without constantly interrupting them. You'd be surprised how often this is not the case."
When asking questions and the guest is done answering it, you don't need to do a summary or anything like "yeah that makes sense, so you're saying that xx and yy and bb which allows you to do xxx. I can see how that makes zzzz better". Just move on to the next question or find a way to segway into the next question.
Also - Derek is super cool and you should definitely talk to him
Thanks Brian, appreciate all the advice.