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if you've been watching my videos for a while you might have noticed that i'm
not always the most comfortable person in front of the camera..
especially in my earlier videos from way back a few weeks or months ago
you might have noticed that i a squirm around a lot of my seat.. or that i don't
really look at the camera when I am speaking..
uh... or you might notice that I do a lot of things with my hands
uh... mostly i think my biggest problem is not speaking to the camera
uh... and uh...
looking around at look at other things or just
st..stammering.. or having trouble getting the words out of my mouth
this isn't really because i'm nervous uh... a little bit nervous to the talking to
the the camera
uh... but it.. That's not the main issue and i think the main issue is that when
i look at the camera on my iMac.. what I see is a
black strip across the
top of the screen with a dead little camera eye staring back at me and when i
look at it to talk to it
it.. there'd.. my mind just goes blank.. like my mind and my brain just
stops processing
so you might have noticed actually somebody that um...
follows me on Google Plus noticed over the last
the last few videos, I've made some improvements in being able to talk to
the camera and she asked me.. She sent me a message and ask what i did to you know
make improvements and i have no i'm no expert there's still a lot of people
that i know
there were way more better at it and i a m
and i'v got a long way to go uh...
but in this in in addition to just practicing
I came up a little tip that has helped somewhat it's made it easier for me
to be able to talk to the camera
uh... without uh... stammering and looking all around and looking as
nervous..
so i want to show you my little friend
that helps me
if you see here
may have to taped
the face of a generic female
right over my camera so that the camera can look right through it a little light
sensor
has a spot
to get through
and when i talk to the camera what i'm doing is talking to
that face instead of.. Now I've removed it.. i'm gonna start to freeze up
i talk to that face instead of the that dead eye of the camera staring back at
me with it like a
dead zombie eye
uh... and makes it a little easier for me to talk to... Now..
over time as i've practiced more and more..
um... and i do practice just talking to an empty camera without ever
i do practice without not even recording just talk to the camera but between that
practice
and having just this little face i got this face from uh... MakeupAnarchist
dot com it's a make-up website may use these
printouts to practice their makeup on.. But you could any face up there
i didn't want a real human face
uh... because i i want something more generic.. I didnt want to feel like I was talking to
a real person.. But you could probably use a real human face
that's helped me a lot so between that and the practice and just talking
uh... i think i've made some improvements according to the at least
one person the falls then google plus she thinks i made some improvements so
if you have trouble
speaking to the camera in addition to practice... Get "a friend" ...