On-Camera presentation skills -- for the occasional job that requires you to be on camera. How to use the Tele-Promp-ter. Where to look? How to look? Memorizing. Interviewing skills. Dress. Make-up. Dealing with HD. Preparing for your session.
My Face is My Passport
You can become familiar with doing on-camera work just like you (at one time) got used to hearing your recorded voice. So set up your home video cam on a tripod at home, and practice looking into the camera and saying whatever comes to mind. You might feel stupid doing it, but when you look back at what you've recorded...you'll begin to see what works for your "look" and what doesn't.
Most on-camera performers are their own worst critic. So record some on-cam stuff, and tear it apart. Then change something and try again. The idea is to become comfortable doing it. Just like listeners can hear a disingenuous quality in your voice, viewers can detect a false persona on-camera in a NY minute.
One of my first reactions to working in voice-acting was...What? I get to do more than one take??!!
Local TV News is unique among TV programs today, in that it really IS live. You get one chance to get it right. Thankfully, when you show up for on-camera jobs in the freelance world, you usually have as many takes as you want (or as they want) to get it right.
But you can really impress the producer if you can "nail it" on the first or second take. That saves them time and money, and makes you look like a professional.
On-camera work is not intimidating. Public speaking IS...but that's another topic.
I plan to lead some discussions here, and will pose questions for those of you who would like to pursue more on-camera work. But in the meantime, feel free to fire away with questions, issues, quandaries, or general discussions of your own.
I'm game for taking this group in any direction.
Thanks for joining, and let me know how I can help.
Dave Courvoisier
(aka CourVO)
Most on-camera performers are their own worst critic. So record some on-cam stuff, and tear it apart. Then change something and try again. The idea is to become comfortable doing it. Just like listeners can hear a disingenuous quality in your voice, viewers can detect a false persona on-camera in a NY minute.
One of my first reactions to working in voice-acting was...What? I get to do more than one take??!!
Local TV News is unique among TV programs today, in that it really IS live. You get one chance to get it right. Thankfully, when you show up for on-camera jobs in the freelance world, you usually have as many takes as you want (or as they want) to get it right.
But you can really impress the producer if you can "nail it" on the first or second take. That saves them time and money, and makes you look like a professional.
On-camera work is not intimidating. Public speaking IS...but that's another topic.
I plan to lead some discussions here, and will pose questions for those of you who would like to pursue more on-camera work. But in the meantime, feel free to fire away with questions, issues, quandaries, or general discussions of your own.
I'm game for taking this group in any direction.
Thanks for joining, and let me know how I can help.
Dave Courvoisier
(aka CourVO)
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Dan
Sorry I can't be more help.
Dave C
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Jai
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