first frame interview faces

I love the awkward 'mid-speak-face' you see on the first frame of a video interview. Even with high quality videos like the one in the grab below, you instantly know it's a video; that peculiar shaped mouth; those glazed eyes; the chair slouch or sideways-lean.

You'd think editors would choose a frame thats a little more flattering, but no.




If aliens were to judge mankind by the first frames of video interviews they would assume we are awkward, illiterate fools about to let out a string of nonsensical murmurs. I suppose we are, really.