...based on my own experience. I'm hesistant to just start giving advice that may be way off the mark, or be too generic to really help you...
Is it truly a "speech" or will you be looking for interaction?
Will there be any audience with you at your site, or will you be alone?
In what setting will most of the audience be receiving your video: sitting alone at their computers? In small conference rooms with others? In large meeting rooms with lots of others?
How many cameras will the recording use? If it's only one, is the plan to have it on you throughout? Or will it pan to take in audience members?
Will you be using presentation support: slides? flicpcharts? handouts?
Will the broadcast be "live" only - or will it be prerecorded for viewing at various times of the day?
If it is "live", what time of day will it be broadcast? What will the audience have been doing just prior to watching your video?
Will other activities or distractions be happening at the remote sites (e.g., it's lunch time and they're eating while watching your presentation)?
Do you have access to the audience following the presentation (by email), if you think your topic requires follow-up?
Do you want to encourage questions or ongoing dialogue with you following your presentation?
And finally, what -specifically - do you want the audience to know, or be able to do, based on your presentation?
If you have time to respond, I'd be happy to make some suggestions either in the forum or by PM.
Submitted by Piergiorgio Grossi on Wednesday July 15th, 2009 9:03 am
Thank you for your time: here are the answers
Is it truly a "speech" or will you be looking for interaction?
[PierG] speech
Will there be any audience with you at your site, or will you be alone?
[PierG] alone
In what setting will most of the audience be receiving your video: sitting alone at their computers? In small conference rooms with others? In large meeting rooms with lots of others?
[PierG] Conference room all together
How many cameras will the recording use? If it's only one, is the plan to have it on you throughout? Or will it pan to take in audience members?
[PierG] Don't know, good question to ask
Will you be using presentation support: slides? flicpcharts? handouts?
[PierG] My choice: your advice?
Will the broadcast be "live" only - or will it be prerecorded for viewing at various times of the day?
[PierG] Live only
If it is "live", what time of day will it be broadcast? What will the audience have been doing just prior to watching your video?
[PierG] After lunch :) for them, late afternoon for me
Will other activities or distractions be happening at the remote sites (e.g., it's lunch time and they're eating while watching your presentation)?
[PierG] Don't know
Do you have access to the audience following the presentation (by email), if you think your topic requires follow-up?
[PierG] I planned to give my email but it's not required
Do you want to encourage questions or ongoing dialogue with you following your presentation?
[PierG] Why not .... but it's not required
And finally, what -specifically - do you want the audience to know, or be able to do, based on your presentation?
[PierG] This is the topic of the presentation :)
Submitted by Ken Williams on Friday July 17th, 2009 9:49 am
Is it truly a "speech" or will you be looking for interaction?
[PierG] speech
[KW] OK – since it won’t be interactive, it becomes ever more important for you to “break up” the speech on your end. I’ll put more on this in a few of the later answers. But for now, think about breaking the major sections of your presentation into roughly five minute chunks, so you will be inviting people who’ve mentally “wandered” to “tune back in.” It can be as simple as taking a big pause (3 seconds of silence gets everybody’s attention) and announcing that you’re moving on to the next topic.
Will there be any audience with you at your site, or will you be alone?
[PierG] alone
In what setting will most of the audience be receiving your video: sitting alone at their computers? In small conference rooms with others? In large meeting rooms with lots of others?
[PierG] Conference room all together
[KW] I’m going to make three assumptions and then my recommendation: 1). Your michrophone is powerful enough or close enough that you don’t have to raise your voice to be heard; 2) the speakers you’re be broadcast through are turned up enough that you can be clearly heard using your normal speaking voice, and 3) there isn’t a lot of ambient noise in the room at either end. If those assumptions are safe, then my recommendation is to speak as if you were presenting to them in their conference room. Use just enough volume and a normal speaking voice. Don’t act like you’re making a “speech” in an auditorium. Keep you gestures small and your voice modulated – or you run the risk of overwhelming the camera (it’s that whole thing about TV being a “cool” medium….
How many cameras will the recording use? If it's only one, is the plan to have it on you throughout? Or will it pan to take in audience members?
[PierG] Don't know, good question to ask
[KW] Since you’re alone, it won’t take in audience members. But if you can set up two shots with two cameras (one tight, one more distant) and switch between those shots every minute or so, that will help break up the monotony of one shot.
Will you be using presentation support: slides? flicpcharts? handouts?
[PierG] My choice: your advice?
[KW] Only use flipcharts if the camera can follow you and zoom in on the flipchart. Otherwise, the shot will have to be wide enough to include you AND the flipchart at all times. That becomes a little too distant to see you, and we have to watch your back when you’re writing.
But if the camera work CAN allow for some movement, flipcharts can be really good on video – because they add a little “interactivity” (as long as you can write at the same time you’re speaking; you can write legibly, and you use a nice black marker).
The risk of using handouts is that people may be thumbing through them and looking ahead – and since you’re not in the room, you don’t know. I personally don’t mind, because I make sure to frequently tell the audience which page they should be on.
Only use slides if the video allows for them to be inserted in place of your picture (so at various points people will see only the slide). NEVER try to broadcast using projected slides – you’ll wander into the projector light, the slides won’t be visible unless your room is dark (and that means you’ll be presenting in the dark!).
Will the broadcast be "live" only - or will it be prerecorded for viewing at various times of the day?
[PierG] Live only
If it is "live", what time of day will it be broadcast? What will the audience have been doing just prior to watching your video?
[PierG] After lunch :) for them, late afternoon for me
[KW] From the smile you inserted, I take it you appreciate the difficulty of presenting right after lunch…Be energetic / Be interesting / Make sure they’re ready to go and not wandering into the room after you’ve started…
Will other activities or distractions be happening at the remote sites (e.g., it's lunch time and they're eating while watching your presentation)?
[PierG] Don't know
Do you have access to the audience following the presentation (by email), if you think your topic requires follow-up?
[PierG] I planned to give my email but it's not required
[KW] If you can give them your email in a text form – on the handouts, the slides, the flipchart, whatever – it will have mor eimpact than just saying it.
Do you want to encourage questions or ongoing dialogue with you following your presentation?
[PierG] Why not .... but it's not required
[KW] The best part is that their questions will help you gauge what they really understood and didn’t understand from your presentation (and that’s often a surprise!).
And finally, what -specifically - do you want the audience to know, or be able to do, based on your presentation?
[PierG] This is the topic of the presentation :)
[KW] OK, you got me. But if your REALLY REALLY know what the topic is, but a ruthless editor when it comes to removing content that’s off topic. Even if it’s your favorite story, or a pretty graphic. If it doesn’t add directly to the topic, it’s expendable.
Some questions...
...based on my own experience. I'm hesistant to just start giving advice that may be way off the mark, or be too generic to really help you...
Is it truly a "speech" or will you be looking for interaction?
Will there be any audience with you at your site, or will you be alone?
In what setting will most of the audience be receiving your video: sitting alone at their computers? In small conference rooms with others? In large meeting rooms with lots of others?
How many cameras will the recording use? If it's only one, is the plan to have it on you throughout? Or will it pan to take in audience members?
Will you be using presentation support: slides? flicpcharts? handouts?
Will the broadcast be "live" only - or will it be prerecorded for viewing at various times of the day?
If it is "live", what time of day will it be broadcast? What will the audience have been doing just prior to watching your video?
Will other activities or distractions be happening at the remote sites (e.g., it's lunch time and they're eating while watching your presentation)?
Do you have access to the audience following the presentation (by email), if you think your topic requires follow-up?
Do you want to encourage questions or ongoing dialogue with you following your presentation?
And finally, what -specifically - do you want the audience to know, or be able to do, based on your presentation?
If you have time to respond, I'd be happy to make some suggestions either in the forum or by PM.
Thank you for your
Thank you for your time: here are the answers
Is it truly a "speech" or will you be looking for interaction?
[PierG] speech
Will there be any audience with you at your site, or will you be alone?
[PierG] alone
In what setting will most of the audience be receiving your video: sitting alone at their computers? In small conference rooms with others? In large meeting rooms with lots of others?
[PierG] Conference room all together
How many cameras will the recording use? If it's only one, is the plan to have it on you throughout? Or will it pan to take in audience members?
[PierG] Don't know, good question to ask
Will you be using presentation support: slides? flicpcharts? handouts?
[PierG] My choice: your advice?
Will the broadcast be "live" only - or will it be prerecorded for viewing at various times of the day?
[PierG] Live only
If it is "live", what time of day will it be broadcast? What will the audience have been doing just prior to watching your video?
[PierG] After lunch :) for them, late afternoon for me
Will other activities or distractions be happening at the remote sites (e.g., it's lunch time and they're eating while watching your presentation)?
[PierG] Don't know
Do you have access to the audience following the presentation (by email), if you think your topic requires follow-up?
[PierG] I planned to give my email but it's not required
Do you want to encourage questions or ongoing dialogue with you following your presentation?
[PierG] Why not .... but it's not required
And finally, what -specifically - do you want the audience to know, or be able to do, based on your presentation?
[PierG] This is the topic of the presentation :)
Some ideas...
Is it truly a "speech" or will you be looking for interaction?
[PierG] speech
[KW] OK – since it won’t be interactive, it becomes ever more important for you to “break up” the speech on your end. I’ll put more on this in a few of the later answers. But for now, think about breaking the major sections of your presentation into roughly five minute chunks, so you will be inviting people who’ve mentally “wandered” to “tune back in.” It can be as simple as taking a big pause (3 seconds of silence gets everybody’s attention) and announcing that you’re moving on to the next topic.
Will there be any audience with you at your site, or will you be alone?
[PierG] alone
In what setting will most of the audience be receiving your video: sitting alone at their computers? In small conference rooms with others? In large meeting rooms with lots of others?
[PierG] Conference room all together
[KW] I’m going to make three assumptions and then my recommendation: 1). Your michrophone is powerful enough or close enough that you don’t have to raise your voice to be heard; 2) the speakers you’re be broadcast through are turned up enough that you can be clearly heard using your normal speaking voice, and 3) there isn’t a lot of ambient noise in the room at either end. If those assumptions are safe, then my recommendation is to speak as if you were presenting to them in their conference room. Use just enough volume and a normal speaking voice. Don’t act like you’re making a “speech” in an auditorium. Keep you gestures small and your voice modulated – or you run the risk of overwhelming the camera (it’s that whole thing about TV being a “cool” medium….
How many cameras will the recording use? If it's only one, is the plan to have it on you throughout? Or will it pan to take in audience members?
[PierG] Don't know, good question to ask
[KW] Since you’re alone, it won’t take in audience members. But if you can set up two shots with two cameras (one tight, one more distant) and switch between those shots every minute or so, that will help break up the monotony of one shot.
Will you be using presentation support: slides? flicpcharts? handouts?
[PierG] My choice: your advice?
[KW] Only use flipcharts if the camera can follow you and zoom in on the flipchart. Otherwise, the shot will have to be wide enough to include you AND the flipchart at all times. That becomes a little too distant to see you, and we have to watch your back when you’re writing.
But if the camera work CAN allow for some movement, flipcharts can be really good on video – because they add a little “interactivity” (as long as you can write at the same time you’re speaking; you can write legibly, and you use a nice black marker).
The risk of using handouts is that people may be thumbing through them and looking ahead – and since you’re not in the room, you don’t know. I personally don’t mind, because I make sure to frequently tell the audience which page they should be on.
Only use slides if the video allows for them to be inserted in place of your picture (so at various points people will see only the slide). NEVER try to broadcast using projected slides – you’ll wander into the projector light, the slides won’t be visible unless your room is dark (and that means you’ll be presenting in the dark!).
Will the broadcast be "live" only - or will it be prerecorded for viewing at various times of the day?
[PierG] Live only
If it is "live", what time of day will it be broadcast? What will the audience have been doing just prior to watching your video?
[PierG] After lunch :) for them, late afternoon for me
[KW] From the smile you inserted, I take it you appreciate the difficulty of presenting right after lunch…Be energetic / Be interesting / Make sure they’re ready to go and not wandering into the room after you’ve started…
Will other activities or distractions be happening at the remote sites (e.g., it's lunch time and they're eating while watching your presentation)?
[PierG] Don't know
Do you have access to the audience following the presentation (by email), if you think your topic requires follow-up?
[PierG] I planned to give my email but it's not required
[KW] If you can give them your email in a text form – on the handouts, the slides, the flipchart, whatever – it will have mor eimpact than just saying it.
Do you want to encourage questions or ongoing dialogue with you following your presentation?
[PierG] Why not .... but it's not required
[KW] The best part is that their questions will help you gauge what they really understood and didn’t understand from your presentation (and that’s often a surprise!).
And finally, what -specifically - do you want the audience to know, or be able to do, based on your presentation?
[PierG] This is the topic of the presentation :)
[KW] OK, you got me. But if your REALLY REALLY know what the topic is, but a ruthless editor when it comes to removing content that’s off topic. Even if it’s your favorite story, or a pretty graphic. If it doesn’t add directly to the topic, it’s expendable.
Good Luck!