Camera Confidence: Be Charismatic On Camera

1. Introduction: If you're someone who creates webinars or videos, digital courses, and you're struggling with camera confidence. You want to know how to appear more authoritative, more knowledgeable on camera. Well, if this is the class for you, my name is cellular dormancy. As he turned off, I am a TED hose and a journalist. In this class, I'll be talking you through some of the fundamentals that's going to help boost your confidence on camera. I'll be helping you to master so easy techniques, there's going to have you looking like a pro in no time. 2. Know Your Subject Matter: It's important to know your subject matter. Whether you're going to be teaching an online course, a webinar, you're doing a YouTube video, or maybe you're even acting in a production, it's important to know your subject matter. Take that time to immerse yourself in the lines that you're going to be speaking. You can practice in front of a mirror. The thing is you cannot cheat the camera. If you know what you're talking about, that's going to come across if you're literally just fluffing and trying to make it up as you go along. That's also going to come across. So just take that extra bit of time to immerse yourself and also get somebody who you know, who you trust to give you feedback practice in front of a friend, in front of a family member and ask them if you were watching me, if you're watching this, what would you think? What is your constructive feedback? What can I do better and implement what they say? Implement their feedback into your presentation just to help you make it more polished and more put together. 3. Grooming: There's that saying that how you dress is how you're going to be addressed when it comes to appearing on camera. That is so so true. It's important to be groomed. You don't have to go out and buy fancy clothes or anything like that. But it is important to make sure that your appearance speaks volumes. So keep your hair nice and groom your nails. Need your outfits, that your outfit me, something that you are comfortable in, that makes you feel powerful, that makes you feel confident, and that gives you a sense of power and authority as well. So really take the time to prepare yourself before you come on camera because There's nothing worse than appearing on camera looking sloppy, you're not going to have that confidence yourself. Again, to feel a little bit out of sorts, I would suggest doing it. You're grooming the day before your shoot and the night before your shoot, planning your outfits. Therefore, honor, the day you're not taking time away from your scripting and all the other important elements of camera confidence. Your outfit is good to go and you can focus on everything else from your lighting, your picture quality, and everything else that goes into making your presentation as success. 4. Scripting: Scripting is a very big part of camera confidence. Now the way I do this is I will literally sit down and script out everything that I want to talk about on camera. And I will read through my script 1015, 2030 times to make sure that I really understand what I've written. I don't have to say it verbatim, but most important is getting the depth of what I want to talk about and making sure that I'm not missing out any vital information. Now, once I've done my main comprehensive script, I will make bullet points. And my bullet points are what I'm going to use during the course of my filming. So once I'm filming, I can have maybe ten bullet points. And each bullet point is going to be a heading. So that heading is going to encompass the subject matter for that specific paragraph. And when I'm filming, I will look at the heading and that will trigger the rest of the paragraph in my mind. But if it doesn't, I can always go back to my main script and read through again. This way you're not trying to repeat what you've written word for word because it's really not about that. It's really about just getting the main, just the main idea of what you want to say and being natural and conveying it in a way that is friendly and warm. So you want to come across like you're talking to a friend, like you're talking to a family member. You don't wanna be too stiff. You don't wanna be too rehearsed. Rehearsing is good because it helps you to imbibe the main points of what you want to stay. But when it comes to delivering your topic, you want it to seem as if it is off the cuff, the clear yet it really isn't. 5. It Is Normal To Make Mistakes: So at this point, I want to emphasize that making mistakes is perfectly normal. We all do it when you're speaking, you may lose your train of thought or you may forget something. Do not beat yourself up about it. Don't be hard on yourself. Simply stop. Take a deep breath and then pick up the best presenters. I find a not perfect with their delivery. I've been a presenter for over ten years and I make mistakes all the time, but instead of beating myself up about it or getting worked up, getting worried, I don't stop. I just take a beat, I pause and I continue. And you can do the exact same thing as well, especially if you have your master script. That master script is going to be your guide and it's going to help you stay on track. 6. Choose Your Tone According To Your Subject Matter: Key to choose your tone according to your subject matter. So if you're speaking on a really serious topic and you want to appear as an authority on that topic, you can speak a lot slower. Take the time to enunciate your words and be articulate in a wash you're saying that's going to help you come across as someone who is knowledgeable and who has a very good grip on the subject matter. But if you are doing something that's more of a skit or it's more, it's more humorous, it's more light than obviously play that up in your voice at a bit of laughter, a bit of sparkle to your voice and add more gestures, infuse your personality into it. You don't want to come across as stiff. Nobody wants to watch someone who is stiff and boring. And you actually want people to get to see a glimpse of who you are through your camera presentation. And this is something that you can achieve by just practicing, practice, practice, practice makes perfect practice. When nobody is watching, put the camera on you for an extended period of time, it can be 5101520, 30 min and just go through it. After you've done that. This is the bit that some people might find a little bit cringy, but take the time to watch back. And when you're watching yourself back, try to be as unemotional and as unsentimental as possible. Just observe yourself as if you were a bystander or an onlooker, and try to pinpoint areas where you feel you can do better and areas where you really, really shine. After that, lean into the areas where you shine. If there's areas that you said that you think, oh, this is fantastic. This is actually very engaging. Do more of that. If there are things like ums and pauses, awkward pauses that you would like to do less off, then just be more conscious of that when you're recording. 7. Project Your Voice: When you're speaking, it's very important to project your voice because you do want to be very audible. Now projecting is not shouting. You are definitely not shouting, but you are speaking in a decibel that's probably a little bit higher. And you're speaking in a way that is more vocal and more audible than the way you would normally speak. Now the first, second, or third time you do this, it's going to feel strange, is going to feel a little bit out of character because you're not used to it, but just keep going, keep practicing, keep doing it. And after awhile, it's literally going to become second nature to you. And you're going to be able to do it very well. 8. Look Directly Into The Camera Lens: So as you are talking to the camera and as you're building your camera confidence, one of the major things you need to be aware of is looking directly into the camera. Looking directly into the camera, like I'm doing right now is going to give you an air of authority. It's going to let the people watching you badly to get a sense of who you are. It's easy to feel fidgety or you might want to look down like this. You might want to look to the side. Please don't do that. These are all habits that you can train yourself out of, which is why earlier I mentioned watching yourself back after you've recorded and why that is so so important. So just trying to look into the camera, just picture someone you like a lot. Imagine that you're talking to that person and you're trying to communicate clearly with that person. You want them to understand what you're talking about. You want to be patient to explain to them in a way that is very reassuring, but that's also quite energetic and active. So please keep all of this in mind while you are doing your presentation. 9. Be Authentic, Be Unique, Be You!: Be authentic, be unique. B, you all have certain traits that make us stand out and you need to embrace your special traits, your unique traits, and use them to your advantage? Yes, use them in your presentation. So if I'm watching and I'm thinking of this as Thomas presentation, this is Brittany's presentation. I loved the way she just stipulate or whatever makes you stand out, embrace it. And I know some people will be there thinking. I don't think there's anything that makes me stand out. I can't identify anything. I am here to reassure you that there's definitely something we all have, something that people find remarkable about us. So if you can't identify what yours is, talk to your colleagues, to your peers, talk to co-workers, talk to family and ask, What do you think it is about me when I speak or just being in my presence, what is special, and I know for sure that they're going to have an answer for you that you can incorporate into your, into your presentation, into your camera skills. Try not to be shy, trying to know, that's the reason that people are getting to be watching, whether it's your online course, your YouTube video, you're webinar. They want to see the real you. They want to know the real user. Don't feel like you have to put on an act or do something out of character in order to stand out or to make an impression you do it, you just need to lean into your most authentic self. 10. Practice, Practice, Practice: Finally, as we wrap this up, I would encourage you to practice, practice, practice, practice, literary makes perfect. In his book, Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell talks about putting in 10,000 h of practice and how we can all master anything at all if we put in our 10,000 h and I'm not saying it's going to take you 10,000 h to become a confident on camera. I'm just saying that you shouldn't worry about the process as you're going through the practice, as you're getting feedback from your family and friends, as your scripting. Every time you do that, you're getting better and you are improving. I know that you can do. I know there was some patients with some perseverance. You're gonna be amazing and fantastic on camera. And also don't forget that you're going to be able to edit. If you make a mistake, you can edit it out. So don't worry, just put your best foot forward and it's all going to work out beautifully. Thank you so much for taking this class, and I hope that you do implement these tips.