Comfortable In Front of The Camera: Advice for your online meetings and presentations
About the Session
Feel more relaxed and be more successful with Zoom meetings.
It looks like we will be meeting online a lot in the coming year. If you have been thinking about how to improve your set-up and presence in front of the camera to make those online meetings and presentations more comfortable for yourself, this session is for you.
Actor and acting teacher Michael Bean will be offering simple and easy-to-apply tips for improving your technical set-up as well as advice and practices that will help everyone feel better about their next online meeting or presentation.
What you will learn:
- Eyeline: Where you look makes a difference
- Lighting: Why lighting is important
- Sound: Finding your honest/authentic voice
- Framing: What the camera sees matters
- Physicality: The rest of your body
- Sight Reading: Presenting detailed material
- Zoom Tech: Helpful tips and tricks
- Settling Nerves: Ease looks like confidence
How you will learn:
- In-class demonstrations and exercises (we'll try stuff out)
- Small group/partner break-outs
- Q&A
Audience
This introductory session is designed for any AAPS member who would like to improve their technical set-up for online presentations and learn some ways to feel more relaxed/honest/authentic when talking to colleagues online. Please note that this session will be highly participatory, be prepared to get involved and try things out. We'll be using the Zoom meeting platform with video and audio. If you have questions about the session, please contact Sarah at AAPS.
About Your Facilitator
Michael Bean is one of the best respected coaches and acting teachers in Vancouver and has spent the last twenty years teaching professionally, in schools, studios, on-set, and on Zoom. Since the spring he's been teaching classes on Zoom almost every day, helping folks learn how to present well on camera and find a sense of connection.
Michael is the author of the Confidence on Camera Handbook, now in its fourth edition. His teaching style is characterized by a deep curiosity for learning and exploration, and an infectious enthusiasm. You can find more about his classes, including his free daily online class, at www.ConfidenceOnCamera.com
Registration
Comfortable In Front of The Camera: Advice for your online meetings and presentations
Friday, October 16, 2020 from 10am-12pm
Tuesday, October 27, 2020 from 1pm-3pm
Please carefully consider your schedule and your ability to participate before registering for this session. While we understand that emergencies happen, the virtual platform makes it difficult for us to fill spaces at the last minute. Please remember that the AAPS PD Program is open to AAPS members only.