In making Movement Pattern Analysis profiles, it has been a principle that live observation is preferable to video. The videotape of an interview can be studied as a backup, to confirm impressions after the initial face-to-face contact with the individual being profiled. But we would rather not make profiles from videotapes alone.
The pandemic, however, has made it difficult to conduct face-to-face interviews. This has called our long-standing principle into question.
At this moment we do not know if video study alone is sufficient for accurate movement analysis. And this seems to me to be a problem analogous to painting a landscape en plein air (that is, outside under natural light) and painting from a photograph in the studio. Find out more in the next blog.