{"id":"vis-job-video-call-background","audience":"job-seekers","category":"image-video","track":"visual","technique":"tone","title":"Get a calm video-call background for remote interviews","free":false,"task":"You have remote interviews next week and want a virtual background from Gemini. Get Claude to write one paste-ready prompt under 90 words, plain text. It must say 16:9, a softly blurred home-office scene, keep the middle third plain and low-detail (where you sit), name both hex colors as codes, and say no text, people, logos, or anything distracting like posters or screens.","materialLabel":"The brief (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"Remote interviews: Tues and Thurs next week (3 companies, all on video).\n\nMy real background is a laundry rack and a bunk bed, so I want a virtual one.\n\nWhat I want it to say about me: calm, organized, professional, a bit warm. Not fancy, not fake-luxury.\n\nIdeas:\n- A tidy home office: bookshelf, a plant, a window with daylight, softly out of focus.\n- Colors I like: warm oak #C19A6B and soft sage #B7C9A8.\n\nThings I've seen go wrong:\n- A friend used a background with a famous movie poster and the interviewer spent 2 minutes on it.\n- Backgrounds with screens or text behind you are distracting, and virtual backgrounds glitch around your head if the area behind you is busy.\n- A \"penthouse view\" background looked like a joke.\n\nVideo call apps use 16:9 backgrounds, 1920 x 1080.","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":90},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Busy middle","why":"The AI centers a bookshelf, which glitches around your head.","fix":"Add: \"Middle third plain and low-detail.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Fancy or fake","why":"The AI drifts to a penthouse or luxury office.","fix":"Add: \"Tidy, modest home office, softly blurred.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Distracting details","why":"The AI adds posters, screens or a famous movie poster.","fix":"Add: \"No text, people, logos, posters or screens.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Colors by name","why":"The AI says \"warm wood tones\".","fix":"Add: \"#C19A6B and #B7C9A8.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Write-up with headings","why":"The AI gives tips on lighting and camera angles.","fix":"Add: \"Output only the prompt, about 45 words.\"","checks":["plainText","maxWords"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Sets the shape","patterns":["16\\s*:\\s*9"]},{"label":"Keeps the middle plain","patterns":["middle third","plain","low[- ]detail"]},{"label":"Asks for blur","patterns":["blur","out of focus"]},{"label":"Gives hex colors","patterns":["#C19A6B","hex"]},{"label":"Rules out distractions","patterns":["no (text|people|logos|posters|screens)"]}],"hint":"A virtual background should disappear behind you. Say the shape, keep the middle quiet, and rule out anything an interviewer might stare at.","rubricLabels":["States 16:9 and keeps the middle third plain and low-detail where the person sits","Describes a softly blurred, tidy home office in a calm, professional tone (not luxury) and gives both hex codes (#C19A6B and #B7C9A8)","Says no text, people, logos, posters or screens"]}