Introduction:

Being interviewed on camera can be a unique and potentially nerve-wracking experience. Whether you're appearing on television, a web series, or a corporate video, the way you present yourself and communicate your message is crucial. Proper preparation can help you appear confident, articulate, and professional, ensuring that your message resonates with your audience.

Here are tips to be well-prepared in presenting yourself confidently and effectively on camera.

• Clothing - Wear dark solid clothing. Jewel tones, blue green turquoise, magenta. Make sure clothing is freshly pressed.

• Don’t wear clothing that is tattered or overly washed.

  

• Stay away from wearing clothing with large logos that are outside of the brand you representing. Wear your company branded clothing.

• Use your hands when you are speaking.

• As much as you can avoid "ums", "likes", and "ughs".

• Get a list of questions prior to the shoot and prepare your thoughts.

  

• Use lay-man's terms that the average person can understand unless the video is targeted to a specific audience that understands the language and acronyms.

• When answering questions use the question as a statement.  For example “why do you work at abc finance” “  I work at abc finance because of the benefits, the culture, the perks “

• If you are feeling nervous its best to practice prior to the shoot using your phone

• Prepare your nervous system. 

• Prior to the shoot recall moments of total confidence, do power poses, use music.  Recall these memories several times.

• Use Neurolinguistic Programming Technique for positive anchoring

Using NLP Anchoring to Instill Positive Feelings

The most common use of NLP anchoring is to have a way to intentionally feel resourceful in the right situations. For example, you may want to feel more confident when making a business phone call. An NLP anchor can grant access to the confidence you have in other situations that are not currently available to you when making business phone calls.

Try this experiment with NLP anchoring. Read the following steps through once and then do them. It’s more interesting after you’ve tried it for yourself.

NLP Anchoring in 5 Quick Steps

Time needed: 10 minutes

NLP Anchoring in 5 Quick Steps

• Determine how you want to feel.

For example, “more confident”.

• Remember a time when you felt really confident.

It can be any memory when you were feeling confident, under any circumstances. You do have one! Relax and let a memory come to mind in which you naturally felt confident.

• Choose an anchor device that involves touch

For example, touching your thumb and forefinger together or making a fist.

• Remember what you saw, heard and felt in your confident memory.

You must put yourself inside the memory as if reliving it. Don’t view the memory from a distance; the feelings won’t come back. You’ve got to ‘be there’ again.

Relive the memory until you begin to feel the confidence coming over you in the same way you felt it at the time. As you feel that confidence coming on, activate your anchoring device from step #3.

For example, touch your thumb and forefinger together as the confident feeling increases. Release your thumb and forefinger when the feeling begins to subside. If you’ve done this well and there’s no underlying reason you shouldn’t feel more confident, this anchor set!

• Test the anchor.

For example, by touching your thumb and forefinger together in exactly the same way again and find out if you naturally access that confident state. Of course, don’t be skeptical and resist the anchor. Allow it to happen.

If it worked, you now have an NLP anchor! From here on out, you get to feel confident whenever you touch your thumb and forefinger together. Cool, huh?

Be well rested,

Don’t over caffeinate, don’t show up hungover

Apply makeup just before the shoot

Use your hands when you are speaking

It is okay to mess up, we just keep rolling.  Take the question again

If the question is asked again in a different way don’t reference that you already answered it.  For example “ Why do you work at ABC financial “  - don’t “ like I said before, I work at abc financial because… “

Pay attention to the interviewer and ignore other things in the room.

Interview tactics-

If I want you to expand on what you said, I will influence the last word you said.

Interviewee “I work at abc financial because of the benefits”

Interviewer “ Benefit? “

Interviewer will repeat what you just said and have you expand on it.

Interviewer will lead you on bullet points

Interviewer “ so you mentioned that the benefits are 401k, healthcare, a stipend – what are all the benefits”.

Interviewee “ The benefits at ABC financial are incredible they include 401k, healthcare, a stipend and my favorite I get my own parking spot”