> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://scribbles.devrel.page/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://scribbles.devrel.page/misc/performance-devrel.md). # Performance DevRel {% embed url="" %} Video {% endembed %} ## Summary: * What are the various types of performances? * What are those “tips and tricks” for each kind? * **Live stage performance** * You may need to memorize a script. * Warming up or cooling down before going on stage. * Connect with the audience. * [**Vocal performance**](https://youtu.be/fCMqvQTXqTo) * Practise tongue twisters. * Drink water. * Try out different registers. * **Performance for camera** * That could be TV, a tutorial , a pre-recorded talk. * Live camera with a teleprompter. * Get help from a friend. * **Performance for a camera with a live audience** * Important to know your cameras are * Make eye contact with the audience and look at them but you really got to keep an eye on your cameras. * **Other types of performance** * For an audience that’s non-technical -- avoid a lot of buzzwords. * There’s performing through a translator. * Performing with an interpreter for the deaf community. * Performing on camera live, like for TV for interviews. * Performing on the radio live. ## Scribbles: ### Live stage performance * You may need to memorize a script. * Very frequently we perform using improvisation, bullet points, notes. * Take a tape recorder and say your entire script into the tape recorder, and then you can play that back almost like hypnotism to learn the script over time. * Take out chunks from that so that you almost have prompt words. * Speak back to the tape recorder. * Helps you get a way of rehearsing your lines with yourself and a tape recorder. * Warming up or cooling down before going on stage. * Some people need to warm up * Getting really hyped, doing push-ups, jumping jacks, yelling with your teammates, screaming backstage in the green room. * Other people need to cool down * They need to take a deep breath, they need to have a little bit of yoga or meditation. * Connect with the audience. * It really helps you calm your nerves and it also helps your audience feel more connected to you. * Making eye contact with an audience member * Asking a question seeing those hands raised in the back. * Any time you get stuck or you get trapped or you start like, “I forgot what I was going to say,” look out into the audience, make eye contact, smile at someone. ### Vocal performance * Podcast, voiceovers for tutorials, calls, sale calls, pitching over a deck, studio recordings. * Practise tongue twisters. * Helps you not stumble on your words as much. * Exercises those vocal muscles. * If you need to do a quick introduction, you can make sure that you know about how long that takes. * Drink water. * Try out different registers. * Experiment with what voice you want to give your audience with pre-recording. * You could try something really high energy, or you could go down to something that is very calming and a question that is very slow. ### Performance for camera * That could be TV, a tutorial , a pre-recorded talk. * Live camera with a teleprompter. * LED screens that can actually sit over a camera. * You can actually see the words and not break contact with the direct lens. * Might be something you want to invest in. * Helpful for things with live data. * Get help from a friend. * Some people feel a lot more comfortable, it can be read as more realistic, can feel more connected to the audience if there’s a person on the other side of the camera. ### Performance for a camera with a live audience. * It’s a webinar, a TED Talk. * Sometimes where your primary audience may or may not be the audience that’s sitting physically in the room with you today. * Important to know your cameras. * Giving a TED Talk -- they generally have two cameras. * Rehearse it with the studio ahead of time, so you know exactly which one to switch to. * Make eye contact with the audience and look at them but you really got to keep an eye on your cameras. ### Other types of performance * For an audience that’s non-technical -- avoid a lot of buzzwords. * If you do have acronyms, contextualize them rather than just say what this means. * There’s performing through a translator. * Speaking in your own native language and then you kind of have to wait for the translator to speak for the audience and then it’s your turn to speak again. * Rehearsing with that translator can be really important. * Performing with an interpreter for the deaf community. * Performing on camera live, like for TV for interviews. * Performing on the radio live. ### Stage fright? * Everyone should get a little bit of stage fright. * Embrace that fear as a type of excitement and energy because at the end of the day, that is what keeps us connected. * Nerves can really be a fire that drives us. .