What the work involves

Exocentric means the camera watches the actor from outside rather than from their head or chest — a fixed or tripod-mounted third-person view of hands, tools, and objects. Recorders are given a task list (kitchen manipulation, assembly, tool use, screen-and-keyboard sequences) and a capture spec: camera height and angle, distance, resolution and frame rate, how much of the body and workspace must stay in frame, how long a take runs, and what counts as a failed take. Day to day the job is repetitive by design — set up, run the take, check the footage for occlusion or blur, log the take, reset, repeat — because training data is only useful when every clip in a batch is captured the same way.

Because this sits under the coding category on micro1, some batches involve filming software or hardware work: a developer's hands at a keyboard, a device being wired or debugged, a screen-plus-hands composite view. Familiarity with the domain being filmed helps you notice when a take is unusable for reasons a generalist would miss — the step happened off-frame, the terminal output scrolled past, the hand occluded the connector at the exact moment it mattered.

What the screen looks for

micro1's screening is AI-led and conversational. Expect it to verify concrete, checkable things: what camera or phone you own and what it can actually output, whether you have a tripod or clamp mount, what your filming space and lighting look like, whether you can commit to consistent weekly hours, and how you handle a spec you think is wrong. Judgment questions tend to be scenario-shaped — a take that is 90% good, a lighting change midway through a batch, a consent question about someone appearing in frame. Answers that stay specific about equipment and process score better than answers about enthusiasm.

Logistics

  • Fully remote, filmed wherever you are, work submitted asynchronously through the platform
  • Batch-based rather than shift-based; volume varies week to week and is not guaranteed
  • Observed rate for this listing is $20/hr; treat setup, review, and upload time as part of the hours you log only if the platform's own instructions say so
  • You supply your own camera, mount, storage, and upload bandwidth unless a batch brief states otherwise