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# How to talk to a camera
- URL: https://www.jacobpugmire.com/how-to-talk-to-a-camera/
- Published: 2024-08-17T07:54:22.000Z
- Updated: 2024-08-17T07:54:57.000Z
- Description: Speaking to in inanimate object like a camera in the beginning is unnatural. Here's how to improve your speaking to a camera ability.
- Author: Jacob Pugmire
- Tags: Article, How To, Video Creation, Videography, Public Speaking, Communication

### Practice by sending video messages to friends 

If everyday you record video messages to your friends, you'll naturally become more comfortable speaking to the camera.

### Think of the camera as if it were a person

Think of it as your friend or a person and you are actually having a real conversation with them.

### Two ways to talk to the camera

- Confiding in the friend - relaxed, comfortable
- Dial up your energy - energetic, captures the audience's attention

### Tips for how to improve your public speaking

- Get out of your head
- Speak through a smile
- Let your personality shine through
- Try and add banter, humor, and stories
- Don't read from a script
  - just focus on the bullet points
- Speak louder
- Speak slower and pause more
  - like shaking a snow globe, the pause lets things settle down
- Play public speaking games

### Website to improve public speaking

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