Thanks for all of your suggestions so far. They're really useful.
I've been looking at green screens as if I can uniformly light the couch and hang a green screen from the wall behind me I can create the illusion that I'm somewhere else. Brilliant!
I think I may mess around with a couple of...
I should probably be a little more clear. There are 6 overhead 50W halogen bulbs (total 300W) and (if not dimmed) its very bright but casts shadows downwards on a collection of shelves in the camera line behind the couch.
I'm just trying to figure out how to change the lighting to alleviate...
I wonder if anyone can offer some advice to a newcomer to filming.
I have a concept for a series of YouTube episodes where part of the episode will be filming myself sat on my couch playing a video game. The couch is in a small room (approx 3 x 4 m) which is uniformly midtone red in colour...