Performance DevRel
Amelia teaches how to connect with your audience, communicate clearly, and embrace your fear as a form of energy that will enhance your performance.
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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. .