Video Presentation Tips Simon Raybould

So today I'm here with Dr. Simon Raybould I don't think we'll get into the doctor if that's all right! One of my daughters said it's a little bit like a Brownie badge, little bit harder that was it little bit harder than a Brownie Badge. Fair enough but presentations is your thing allegedly, so I'm only kidding and what I really want to get an idea in the sense of is if you were teaching somebody to present to camera like we're doing what not because this is an interview style, but if somebody were just presenting to it in an inanimate object which is all of these you there are usually two things that I find people have an issue with and it's being comfortable enough and authentic enough on camera, so are there any tips and techniques that you can give us? Yes there are lots so if you talk about talking head and you're looking straight at the camera so maybe you doing a webinar and that kind of thing? Okay so, the getting comfortable thing is always a real challenge and are loads of little tricks we can use. The first is embarrassingly simple just embarrassingly simple just try standing up it changes your whole demeanor and it makes you feel like you've given a presentation as opposed to just sitting and chatting on your desk so your whole mindset changes and it changes the way your voice sounds as well. Another trick that people use a lot is to have a photograph of real people and just put it behind the the camera or the computer or whatever it is that they're talking to, so they don't obsess with the uuurgh because it's working you can do that in focus here because as far as your audience is concerned they are here okay, so you just put photographs and talk to the photographs behind there behind the camera now that helps with the the mindset as well because you're talking to he talking to images of real people so as well as changing your depth of I'm going to call it depth of focus but you know you know to me it also changes yours also changes your mindset the other thing you can do of course are to get completely comfortable with the material and I know oh I know everyone's going to hate me saying that but many problems that people have when it starts - camera is this we're going to say next if you can't say it live you shouldn't be saying it to a camera and yes I know you can edit out the occasional gap you know something falls over perhaps you can edit that out but you can't edit out the urns and the hesitations quite quite and naturally in quite so easily so if you don't want you going to say at least for the duration of the paragraph you shouldn't be saying it which brings us Catelli prompters don't though a person I know who can use a teleprompter and make it look like they're completely natural is Barack Obama and he's had shared loads of training to the point where actually he finds it difficult now to speak without a teleprompter so you get a set that people have commented to knew today a bar more than that one stage look how it looks they say I mean and you look that way that's not natural at looking ready flippin words have been projected he's just using the teleprompter to do that so don't because it changes your whole demeanor and that's not completely trained on a teleprompter don't do it the thing that I'm really keen to try and get an idea of where the authenticity is about Pierce if it's if it's not your natural peers yeah and it's having energy so how do you keep the energy and the pace but like being authentic to yourself right energy is a huge problem and we talk about an energy SAP the more technology there is between you and your audience the more energy gets acts out of what I'm saying it's true even if you're presenting light and using a microphone there's less energy in what the audience receives then doesn't help then you're putting it and it gets more and more the problem as you get more and more bits of technology so if you're sitting at home watching this interview at the shed loads of Technology between you and I and whoever's what if anything is what to listen so you need to keep your energy up really really high particularly when you're doing Talking Heads - cameras video shots or webinars and that kind of stuff because blue Khalif people don't listen to them they kind of put on at the background and then they check their emails and the problem with that is that people think they can multitask we go I'll just listen to this and I'll check my email so the list of people who can multitask in this room is not you cannot do it stop filming yourself stop that can so if you're listening to this stop what you're doing and listen to this okay but what we can do as presenters when you're talking the camera is hype everything I want you to imagine you know the old the one who wasn't at the old joke about turn everything up to 11 on the amplifiers it's that because what feels like really stupid levels of haha to the presenter just feels like normal common sense speech to the person that's on the receiving end of it and the other trick you can use and by the way of standing up helps with with that as well the other trick you can use is to make sure that on a webinar and that kind of jazz whenever you're going and showing slides something happens a lot more frequently than it would happen in a live presentation so life example I can put up a slide and talk about the content from anything between three seconds and three minutes or 20 minutes depending upon what's on the slide I would dream of doing that on the webinar there was a very very crude rule of thumb and it is so crude I hate myself for saying it because forgettable rules of thumb be taken as rules right this is a guideline another rule five or six seconds and annoys me when you see people a bullet point on the slide and then talk about it for a minute and another bullet point you talk about it and then a bullet point in you talk about it you might be away with that life but you won't because the bullet point you should be shot with them but on the webinar type thing you need *** *** *** people will concentrate for as long as they would otherwise concentrate so you need to have things happening and in an ideal world one of the things that be happening is your face we are evolutionarily programmed and designed to be interested in faces all right babies look at faces and then recognize faces and start eating from yeah from from pretty much straight out of the womb if you can possibly keep your face on camera then keep your face on camera and have some really good cheap and even free software now that will allow you to record yourself with a talking head and slide yourself into the slide now if you don't do it all the time because that's too pretentious and oh yeah but on those occasions when the energy on the slide deck starts to dip you can boost it by having more things happening on the slides and having yourself talking let's see your your first story it's been really insightful Simon I'm not so grateful for you allowing me the time to come and out up with you hope it's been useful it sounds definitely been useful if people want to find out a bit more about the 10 stuff that you do to get a bit more in depth kind of knowledge intuition where can we find you the easiest way is presentation genius doc beam flow it's not the world's most modest website title I'd write to you presentation genius info and if you want to get the hints and tips and the free training courses and stuff presentation just presentation genius book info / high fantastic thanks again time you wasn't thank you don't forget if you haven't already subscribed to my youtube channel it's the the icon link at the bottom of the page on the left hand side and the top link will take you through to one of my latest tutorials complete again next week