• Audio & media
• A primer of on-camera presence
• Verbal, Vocal & Visual delivery
• Camera positioning
• Lighting
• Framing and background
Don’t be the rookie on a Zoom call with an amateur set up, bad sound, and a camera looking up your nose
Our audience needs to feel our self-belief before they will believe us. And one of the tricks to self confidence lies in the memory of success.
When we’re calm we learn better. When we’re calm we’re more engaging. And when we’re calm, we help make others calm.
It's the one thing our audience wants from us more than anything else - to know that we are being true.
It's easy for us to sometimes slip into the habit of declaring that we're "being open" and thinking that's it - job done.
Us humans have good bullshit detectors. It’s one of our super powers…
Brene Brown calls it “floodlighting” and we all know it when we get hit with someone else’s floodlight… but how do we make sure our own sharing is not overbearing?
Ken Robinson is a good place to start… be mindful of your audience, be quick, and be light.
The most simple way to be vulnerable is to say what you feel is right, not what you know is right.
There's a simple trick to bringing a warm smile to your performance when you're in front of the camera... and it doesn't involve you having to "love the lens".
Making an audience like you on camera is all about first making them comfortable. And the trick to making them comfortable is, ironically, focus on yourself before them.
One of the easiest trick to re-trigger your self-belief is to replay in your mind the great things that people say about you.