Over at our curved vision site (were we offer bespoke presentation skills training) there\u2019s an acute lack of videos; in fact there\u2019s only one photo even, in the current incarnation of the website! There are no client videos showing how how well our training works.<\/p>\n
Surely, as presentations trainers, video would be the obvious thing to include, right? After all, it would be strong evidence of good we are as trainers!<\/p>\n
Well yes, but…<\/p>\n
There are lots of \u2018buts\u2019 when it comes using videos. Firstly, to do them right takes a lot of time, effort, energy and money. Before the techno-democratists amongst you say \u201cBut what about just grabbing something from an iPhone and….?\u201d rest assured that we\u2019ve tried it. Stuff grabbed by that kind of equipment looks like what it is – amateur. Well, unless you put a lot of time and effort and money into post-production editing that is… and if you\u2019re going to do that, you might as well as hired a videogrpher and his\/her camera in the first place!<\/p>\n
That said, you\u2019re right, there are ways around almost all technical issues, if you\u2019ve got the imagination and the right skills.<\/p>\n
More important than just the tech, though, is the issue of the effect of the camera on the subject.\u00a0 Anyone familiar with Hiesenburg\u2019s uncertainty principle will be aware of the problem – essentially, the idea is that it\u2019s very hard to study some things because the very act of studying it (might) change it. I say \u2018might\u2019 deliberately because by definition you\u2019ll never know!<\/p>\n
And so it is with video cameras.<\/p>\n
The moment you point a camera at a room full of people wanting to learn how to be better presenters you change the nature of what you\u2019re doing. Almost every presenter (and in my experience every<\/strong> in<\/em>experienced presenter) behaves slightly (or significantly) differently when they know there\u2019s a camera on them.<\/p>\n Sadly, videoing them without them knowing is unethical. \u00a0:)<\/p>\n The only sensible way we\u2019ve come up with (and even this is problematic) is to use a videographer who\u2019s so good at what she does (she being “Clare”, here!) that people don\u2019t notice that she\u2019s got a camera in her hand, on her shoulder or in front of her face.<\/p>\n That level of skill isn\u2019t easy to acquire.<\/p>\n But there\u2019s more. More problems, that is.<\/p>\n Not only do the people we train not want to be videoed being trained but as often as not the subject matter of the presentations they\u2019re working on isn\u2019t something they want blasting out to world. Sometimes that\u2019s because they want to \u2018unleash\u2019 it on the world at a specific time and in a specific place, but more often than not it\u2019s the simple mundane issue of the contents not being flattering.<\/p>\n Who\u2019d want to have part of their presentation showing if the presentation was why the company was 33% behind targets this year?! :) \u00a0 And no, I won\u2019t name names! :)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Over at our curved vision site (were we offer bespoke presentation skills training) there\u2019s an acute lack of videos; in fact there\u2019s only one photo even, in the current incarnation of the website! There are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-personal-blog-related","category-presentation-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}