Now, when I first started in video production, I would recommend that people use scripts. Okay? And still, in some cases, you should use scripts. Now I'm like, throwing out the scripts, throw them out because they make you look stiff and unnatural. And for quite a long time, also, I was using the teleprompter, okay? Now unless you're a professional newsreader or an actor, or Command, you don't use a teleprompter, because you're there and you're reading it, and you're not present.

Same with the script. If you're using a script, think about it. Okay, so if now if you write out a whole script, even on a one minute video, then you are thinking about, okay, am I saying it in the right order? Or what comes next? That sentence? Is that right?

Get that word, right? You're gone. You're not there. You need to be present to create a really good video. Okay, so throw out the scripts except In a few cases in more sort of professional video production at a higher level, and obviously in TV and drama and all that fine in your act, if you're an actor, however, the best method is, is this is practice, okay? Now, I did say in an email a couple of weeks out, you guys need to practice, okay?

If you don't practice, it's very hard to be natural in front of camera unless you know your topic. So well, you can just say it off the cuff anyway. Okay, and I do, we do get those cases. So, what you need to do is to practice, practice, you practice as many times as you need, until you can say it without thinking. Because then when you're in front of the camera, you're not thinking about it, you just sign it and then you present the actual video. And what you need to do also is to select one topic and break it down into three or four main points.

Now I also had another slide that I took out, which is all about short term memory. But basically, I didn't want to go into too much detail. But a short term memory, we can only remember, you know, things for about 2030 seconds and a limited amount. And we need to chunk information to remember it, we're not going to go into a lot of detail with that few teachers in the room would know about that as well. However, the thing you need to remember is to break it down into three or four points. Now, what you can do is write those down on a piece of paper and nothing else.

Nothing else, then you start practicing, you can look at it, start with look at it, look at it in practice, and do your one minute presentation. Looking at those points, and then when you don't need to look at them anymore. And you can say it and it doesn't matter if you say it in a lot of different ways. It's still you saying it, it's you. Okay? So it doesn't matter, you still it still has the same meaning still saying the same thing in slightly different ways.

So that doesn't matter. Whereas, as with a script, you like, shit that word incorrectly. You know, take 50 Take 60 take 70 you know, that type of thing, and you're not present anyway, so it's a bit of a waste of time. So I can't emphasize how important it is to practice. Don't get in front of the camera until you unless you absolutely know your topic that well, you can just get in front, and you know exactly what you're going to say. If you don't, you need to practice, practice, practice.

So it's all about the preparations like anything in life. It's about the preparation, okay? And sometimes I do sometimes, I can record a video or practice a couple of times and like, do it two, three times now just wasting my time. I'm not listening to my own advice, you know, I need to have to go back and practice it until I just feel natural in front of the camera. So there's no shortcuts. It's like like there's no shortcuts.