Presenting 101: Quick tips to be great in front of camera

1. What can you expect from this course?: Welcome to this course presenting 101, how to be great in front of camera. My name is Simon, not trained hundreds of people and how to do just that. Being in front of cameras can be a tone tone, not in this course, you'll learn fundamentals of how to prepare for planning and script writing. And then deliver through body language, being for a presentation or a report, or even an interview. Make sure you flip the best version of yourself. Your journey into stardom starts here. So what we will do. 2. Preparing to enter the spotlight: So you've been tossed with being the face in front of a camera. I assume this is your first time or you might have done it before. We're just four, you could do with a bit of improvement. Now let's teach you how to kill it next time the spotlight on you working on your presentation, plan. Plan plan. I don't know how often I need to say it, but if you fail to plan, you plan to fill. Not always take the time to practice and put a clear objectives emotion before you even get in front of the camera. Now this includes understanding the purpose of the video that you even created. Who are you speaking to? What do they hope to get out? From there, you can decide how to best tackle the challenges such as the style that you will go for, maybe the time limit that you'll set yourself to deliver. How will you break you up? You need to consider whether you need examples or assets of resources via video isn't going to be lighthearted or is it gonna be fun driven? The planning stages is where you should also all of these questions, scripts to use on not to use. That is the question and his thoughts are, if you don't use a script, it can feel more natural. However, using the script can help bring more structure to your quantum. The problem with the scripts is that sometimes it can feel a little bit robotic. Ideally break your content into modules. We can easily remember them and then deliver them. Now you need to find a little bit of a middle ground to make choices. And naturally that can be. Now remember, notes are always better than writing and reading something word for word. When writing scripts, make sure you trim the fat as much as possible. Keep it short, keep it sweet, keep it clear. Now my advice is our first try and avoid using scripts as it will teach you how to keep your quantum nice and short and easy to remember, say it feels a lot more natural. Now when brought in scripts, signposting is a handy tool to make your content easier to read and easy to follow. Now you can underline keywords in your scripts such as mains, brands, locations for emphasis. Use paragraphs for long pauses and highlight words to help you know that you need to lift up your pitch or your toe. For example. Hello and welcome. In this video, we're gonna be looking at the five best ways that you can cook an egg. My name is Simon. I'm a professional shift with over ten years experience working in a five-star Michelin restaurant. And I've done it all over the world. Now, in this session you're going to need one egg, some butter, salt, black pepper, spatula, and a small frame impact. Let's get started. Now when compiling your scripts signposting with firstly, secondly, and finally on your plants makes it even clear on gives clarity to where you are in your content. And yet again, makes it easier for your audience to follow along. First thing we're gonna be looking at scrambled eggs and how to get them perfect every time. Secondly, we'll be looking at the classic Friday. And finally, my favorite, the boiled egg, before we delve into a final two techniques for cooking and lovely tasting egg. Now imagine if I gave you a list of the top ten grossing movies of all time, and how much they made individually. How many do you think you could remember? Put it to the test? Now, as of the time of this recording, Number one was avatar with $2.8 billion. Number two was Avengers Endgame with 2.7 billion. Titanic was free with 2.2 billion. Star Wars seven was at $2.06 billion. Avengers Infinity War was in at number five at $2.04 billion. Thoracic world was at $1.67 billion. On number six. At number seven was the Lion King with $1.66 billion. Number eight was Spiderman, no way home with 1.6 free $1 billion. Number nine would be a binges with $1.51 billion and a number ten was furious seven with $1.51 billion. Now the honest truth is you would probably find it difficult to recall five or six of those. And it's safe to say even offer a few minutes, you'd soon forget another two are free. Now most of the time we can only really process about three or four pieces of information at a time when you put it into giving your content, try and make sure that you hit this amount of points at one time. First off, it makes it easier for you to remember, but it also makes it easier for your audience to, next time you're watching your favorite TV show. Wherever there's a documentary or a wildlife program, see how longer present the tools on screen for a time if they're even on screen. Now, chances are they don't speak for more than three seconds at a time. And there's several reasons for this, but it's been proven that the shortlist segments, the more effective they are to your audience. Now 90 words or less on a script is generally the lymph you want to go for and be conscious to break up any longer segments to make sure it has a big impact on their view is when you deliver. 3. Working on your delivery: Body language is over 90% of your communication. I'm sure you've heard that before. So it's actually no surprise how important it is to deliver it in front of camera. If you feel uncomfortable, it will show up. Body language is formed up of several attributes. And this tone of voice, facial expressions, hand gestures, posture, and taking time to understand how these attributes convey a message. You audience is key. It's a takeoff space, felt less than tall. Smile and speak with a low voice to help portray or 40 and conviction. If you speak with your hands, don't restrict yourself. Beat animated is always more engaging. So use your hand gestures for emphasis. For example, when referencing numbers, you can indicate this with your fingers. Or if you're comparing two subjects, you can use your left hand to describe one subject and your right-hand to describe the up. Let's try it out. I'm going to play you two videos on both off from a job interview. The sound is also you cannot heal would the same, but just based on their body language, which one would you hire? And have a think about why. Sometimes we actually speak before word is even left on mouse. Practice the upward language. Dominate the screen the next time you are in front of the camera. Now, as mentioned when I spoke about body language, posture is one of those attributes to how will you deliver. So be comfortable, Be seated or standing, but make sure you're planting your feet firmly on the ground. Cynthia, self, and try and reach that extra inch taller. Being nice and straight helps to open up your chest, project your voice, and help give you more of an affirmative appearance. What's the first thing you tend to think about when you get anxious? The what if, what if a look bad? What if they don't believe me or if I'm wrong? What if your mind is already fixated on a negative and then what happens? Your body locks up. You freeze, is hard to breathe, is hot to speak, and then he caved in on yourself actively reversed those instincts. Take a long deep breath, wake up your body, and do something at that moment that you're in. Keep the focus on them and think about all the things that you're grateful for in that moment. And doing this will remove the pressure on you both physically and mentally. And then you'll find that those anxieties just start to slowly, easily. Now, often someone has never used an auteur cube before will be misled into thinking it's the easiest thing in the world. All you have to do is read right? Wrong. You do have to read, yes. But you have to be able to read as well as seamlessly perform what you're reading and make it sound and look natural. Now the key with an autoclave has been able to read with I actually looking like you're reading. That's the skill in itself. Not a first trick is speed used in natural breaks in the text as an opportunity to breathe and paste yourself, not erase. Next thing is to a Nazi ate. A particular emphasis on the first and last words in a sentence gives a nice punch and adds more dynamics to your voice. At the same time, you need to be conscious of what you're doing with your body and your face. It's definitely for those that are good at multitasking. So make sure you practice before you stepped in front of a camera. Try recording yourself for the first few times, so just see what you need to work on a little bit more. It could be something as simple as smiling when you read alter cute isn't for you than the next best thing is actually trying to learn your lines. But be honest with yourself, if you're present in to camera for several minutes, are you able to remember such a long squirts? It may sound self-explanatory, but you need to practice your lines as much as possible. Read them out loud. I cannot stress this enough, please, because it sounds very different in your head than it does when you actually verbalize them. You'll find that there's a load of tongue twisters in net or sentences or words that don't quite make sense and will trip you up. So just make sure you read out loud. 4. Presenting to camera: Need to knows: Now, video in a simplest form, is about conveying information to your audience in a quickest visual way possible. I always question if you said it clear in the first instance. Why do you need to repeat yourself? You don't need to say the same thing more than once, especially when your audience's attention spans are short or by the day. So keep it short, keep it concise and keep it clear. Avoid repeating yourself. Not to often do people write in a way to make them sound small and intellectual? I'm gonna break it down to you. You're not fooling anyone. So make sure you don't over-complicate things by trying to speak in a way which is actually foreign teeth. Imagine you're present into a grandparent, or better yet, a five-year-old. How would you speak? Remember, you may be speaking to a global audience and not everyone has English as their first language. It's a think about your audience, make it easier for them to follow. Now a strong star will always put you in good stead to cap your audience's attention. Who are you? What are you gonna be talking about, and how is it relevant to them? Now, starting with a clear statement of intention, captures their curiosity and holds focus on you. Let's take a look at my example earlier. Hello and welcome. In this video, we're gonna be looking at the five best ways that you can cook an egg. Uh, my name is Simon. I'm a professional shift with over ten years experience working in a five-star Michelin restaurant. And I've done it all over the world. Now, in this session you're going to need one egg, some bottom salt, black pepper, spatula, and a small frame. So let's get started. Now, video is the medium of visual images to take advantage of this and use as much references as you can to tell you a narrative. Now nobody wants to stare at someone talking for like 20 minutes to images, videos, charts, graphs, gifts, or help to break up the visuals and keep your audience's attention. 5. Preparing for your interview: Right? Interview time. Now your role as the interviewer is the most questions and control with a focus and attention is. Many tips. Do apply it as if you were on the screen solar. Definitely a few additional things to consider. Let's take a look at how you can best prepare when conducting an interview. The researcher do before stepping into interview is the most crucial part of the process. Know who you're gonna be speaking to and learn about their recent pieces of work. Find out this story. Now understand them as a person, not just a subject matter. Most importantly, look into interview they might have even done in the past. How is yours is gonna be different? Don't just OK, sustain type questions that everybody else is awesome. You need to make sure that you're stands out and is unique. Not a basis of any good video is having a clear narrative. Now think about this when planning your questions. What's the story that you're trying to convey? Digital story about financial success is about being raised in London. Is it about relationships? You have questions on a tool that you're gonna be using to drive your story. Make sure you ask open-ended questions to ensure that your responses are not just limited to a yes or no. For example, was growing up in London excited? Yes. No. Compared to how was it for you growing up in London? Think about your voice, not just like a piece to camera, you need to think about how you're gonna present yourself to camera and what the style is. Is it gonna be conversational? In which case you need to make sure you introduce yourself and have a liberal, important subject metal. However, many interviews just simply focus on the interviewee with the intention to just use their responses. In which case, you need to make sure you don't interject and get them to speak with context. So for example, do you enjoy traveling? Yes, I do. Compared to I do enjoy traveling is great. So by doing this, you can make sure you edit yourself out of the video asking the questions and the answers that they give will store how to context. It's always good to see great chemistry on screen between an interviewer and interviewee. This is often built because both parties involved have had a previous interaction and built a relationship or rapport which will break the ice beforehand for having a conversation before the interviews even gonna commence and clearly outlined what you expect from the conversation. But also take an opportunity to get to know the person and break some of those barriers so that you can go into the interview with a level of comfortability. You know each other a little bit already. One way you can do this is by bringing up something they did recently, like an achievement or something that you think you have in common with them by kids or pets. 6. Action! Starting your interview right: In simple terms, active listening has been able to consciously listen, process, and respond appropriately towards being said to you. This can be done in a combination of ways, including acknowledging what has been said by repeating the interviewees main point in your head before following up with a relevant question. For example, Wow, that was amazing how you build such success from a simple idea, like tee-shirts. Speaking of t-shirts, or the first design that you ever made. This allows you to first of all recall information showing that you weren't in fact actually listening and not just focusing on the next question, but also allows you to smoothly transition to paul of actively listening also involves having strong eye contact and being able to listen without interruption. Global queues are one of the most permanent ways to differentiate between a great interview. And sometimes you may not even notice it, especially if it's more of a conversational style. However, there's others that are really noticeable. I can get to the point where it actually just annoying and take away from the focus of the interview. Avoid verbal cues like Yes, sure, great. Amazing. Particularly when your interviewee is toolkit. Instead just transfer it is energy into smiling and nodding in agreement. At least that way the focus will stay on them. Yes, silence can be awkward, but a great interviewer can use silence as a tool to get more from the interviewee. Now nobody is comfortable with silence, so we will have a natural need to fill it by talking or doing something. When asking a question, give you interview time to speak. Even if they are finished, just give them an extra second or two before you go onto your next question. This is a great technique because often they'll continue to speak to avoid the silence. And so you'll find you'll get a more complex response from them than you normally would if you'd just gone onto your next question. Either of you feel uncomfortable instantly, it will show. Now conduct the interview in an environment that is comfortable for the both of you, sit where applicable, and have at minimum at least a glass of water to sip on, should the moment cool for it. Now it's important to make your interviewee fill out their time is valuable. So that way there will be more relaxed and more open to answering your questions. Try sit in a time that's not draw an awkward hours. Lack first thing in the morning or late in the evening. If it's around lunchtime, maybe provide some snacks. Considering these little things will always give you a great impression and make everyone feel a lot more comfortable. Don't confuse the person you're speaking to, but often several questions at once. But yet don't ask the question I've been answered. These are traits over rookie. Professionalism comes from making things clear and simple. Even though the process may have been complicated, the audience are paying attention to the interview because of who you're speaking to. They want to hear from them. Don't alter the question for them or even lead him into answering it. But given your opinion on it, first, ask one question at a time and then allow them to respond. As with any form of communication, body language is gonna be key to delivering effectively. A great trick to build in chemistry or blackness with your interviewee is to mirror their body language. If they cross their legs, you cross your legs. If they brought their hair, you, if you have had brushes, but it creates a sense of synchronicity, they may not notice it, but somehow they'll feel more comfortable in your persons. Remember to smile, speak with open gestures by expanding your arms and always maintaining good eye contact. They want to note that you'll focused on them and you consider the conversation important. Nothing worse than a phone going off in the middle of a great conversation. So do your prep beforehand and remove all the destructions, be at phones, pets, TVs, radios or even kits, OSC, anyone that doesn't need to be in a room to leave. So the focus is solely on you. And then now this goes back to how far you're planning is. Get to the location as foreign and vaults that you can't access the space, make it as uncontrolled environment as possible. By removing anything that you feel may be a distraction. It could be as simple as closing the windows to block out any traffic noise. 7. Interviews: Need to knows: Provide the new start and end strong. You can always get away of your middle being not so great as most people remember while you're opening because it captures their attention. And a tail end because is to penultimate, climax or hopefully something that was a great story. Think about it. The films that you remember or like the most of January, the ones that have really good opening or a really good ending. Now how are you going to create an impact in the same way, open with intention, state who you are, why people should be watching and what to expect. Landed lack of good punchline to a joke. When you're commented and simplicity is key, don't spend two minutes seeing you thank cues and recapping the whole conversation. Maybe just have a call to action and then say goodbye. For example, as you're close, it could be, well, that's what we have time for today. Thank you so much to walk guest. And if you want to see more from us, you can check out our YouTube page at blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Thank you so much for watching and goodbye. Confidence is unfortunately not something you can easily gain with a few tips or tricks. It comes from two things, practice and preparation. However, there are few ways of making you sound more confident. The first thing you need to do is remove those filler words, the, and the Rs, the kind of, sort of the likes. All of these words convey a sense of uncertainty. And that's the result will just make you seem like you have low self-esteem, does sound unconvincing. You can practice this by challenging yourself to a one-minute speech about whatever you like. Record yourself and see how many times you use these filler words and then do it again with a different speech. You could even just pick up an item from your home and tell a story about how you go. Again, record yourself and just see how you can improve by slowing down breathing. I've been able to be comfortable with silence so you can compose yourself. Ever since the pandemic, more and more of our interviews have transitioned into online formats. The virtual platforms such as Skype presume, Teams, etc. Now if you're preparing for a virtual interview, there are many tips in this course which are obviously going to be applicable, but there were a few extra things you need to bear in mind. The first thing is to just try and position your camera at eye level. Having the camera low predicts a sense of dominance over the person you're speaking to. And to be honest, nobody wants to see up your notes. So just make sure that your camera is at eye level. It's not always perfect timing when you're speaking to someone over the internet. Just give additional space for any delays in case the interviewee hasn't finished speaking. Now from a technical perspective is always advisable to join the core, nice and early to troubleshoot any issues that you may have. The personal and the other end of the line can't hear you. Your Internet is unstable, the interview becomes a waste of time. So just make sure you do your checks well, in advanced. 8. Now lets put it to the test!: Unless we have time for I know there was plenty to get through, but I do encourage you to practice what you've learned. Take a subject that you're passionate about. It could be a hobby or it could be a new discovery soft spot, your interests, your camera phone and stop recording yourself. For men bonding. How are you going to structure your content? Think about your body language and your script. Now, lookout for anything that you could do better and then do it again. It's all about practice. I promise you, if you only do this once you do not been proven to charge your phone and get rolling. Good luck, and I'll see you guys next time.