Standing In Front of the Camera With the Greatest of Ease

Standing interviews are a little bit different.

If you’re being interviewed while you’re standing or you’re just talking to a camera while you’re standing it’s not quite the same thing as being seated.

You’re not leaning forward 15 degrees the whole time but you’re not trying to have perfect posture like a book would balance on the top of your head you’re moving and in the process of moving you do come forward you’re bending from the waist you shouldn’t be moving your feet but you should be moving from the waist up.

The rules still apply your hand should be moving your body should be moving your face should be moving your eyebrows that way you’ll come across more comfortable confident and relaxed.

Now the big problem the awkward thing for so many people when they’re doing a standing interview is they now want to hold their hands in front of them and the fig leaf position that makes them look scared uncomfortable like you have to go to the bathroom so don’t stand in the fig leaf position.

The other thing people do is they put their hands behind their back.

The so-called military at ease position but it doesn’t make you look like you’re at ease it makes you look like you’ve been handcuffed.

You’ve committed a crime and you’re about to be taken away to prison.

My Recommendation Don’t Stand with your hands behind your back.

A third thing people try to draw out or know what to do with my hands I’m going to put them in my pocket that immobilized as you again makes you look uncomfortable.

My recommendation when it comes to your hands is to move your hands when you speak.

When you’re starting off either have your hands down by your side or just touching the fingertips barely all the way down.

Not one of these awkward things you see politicians do nothing that looks artificial but your fingertips kind of just barely touching and then as soon as you talk move your hands.

That’s the best thing to do with your hands now.

Another problem people have when they’re doing standing TV interviews is they may stand with their feet shoulder width apart and they’re a little bit uncomfortable and nervous and before you realize it everyone’s getting seasick and you’re completely unaware of it.

So make sure to not do that.

Here’s a simple solution to that to prevent you if you are nervous instead of standing with your feet shoulder width apart put one foot forward one foot back.

Now I really can’t rock sideways or I’ll fall down if I rock a little bit.

Front and backwards it’s much less noticeable because of the lack of depth perception on the video camera.

So those are the best practices when it comes to how to do interviews or how to do anything in front of a video camera while you’re standing.