I'm attaching this sheet below it every single lecture in this particular section. Sorry if that seems redundant, but I don't want you to have to go back and forth. And those of you who don't want to print it out, it will be right there. Familiarize yourself. Most of these items are self explanatory. I have the item, and then I have six columns.
I do that because typically, if you're rehearsing, you're going to do at least six different takes six different versions, or if you're working with others, you may want to rate colleagues as well. So that's why I have it in columns. The first one is good posture. What I'm looking for here is for you to get used to rating yourself and others objectively, not some overall impression, but highly, highly specific criteria. And what I want you to do is just put a Y for yes, an end for now. Or question mark.
For every one of the items on the sheet I'm going to walk through and analyze each one of them for you, or tell you how I use them when analyzing because I want you to have the same tools. This is very different than how most people analyze video of themselves speaking, I get sort of a general fuzzy impression Oh, I did well today or I was off. There's nothing you can do with anything that facet, you need specific feedback. The beauty of this checklist is has about 30 items. So when you can look at yourself or hand a colleague, this sheet and you see that well, 27 items, you're doing really well fine. There's only two or three items where there's a problem.
It puts things in perspective. When you or someone you're working with can see you're doing almost everything well, if you don't use a checklist It's human nature to just dwell a Florida I've seen people go through practice median views, I thought they were great. They said two arms and all they want to do is beat themselves up and cry and quit because they think they're so awful for the arms. They didn't look at all the other categories. So the first one on here posture What I mean by that is, how are you or how is the person on camera sitting? As we've already talked about, the big problem most people have is they're sitting back and that makes a double chin show up they look heavier, or perfectly straight or they're slouching one way or the other or doing something awkward.
So we're looking for quickly is just why four s is the posture okay? No, or are you unsure put question mark, I want you to really get used to making quick judgments because after you've done this for a while, you can judge Somebody's in every single category in about 20 seconds of watching their video when clients send me their videos and when some of you send me your videos for critiquing. I can typically figure out everything I need to know in watching in about 10 seconds