I hate recording things, primarily because I need too many takes. I sound awful reading off a script and I want to improve my freeform speaking, but even with the script memorized I trip up at the start, over and over and over.
It's the process of reloading my brain back into the continuous speaking state, I think. In the middle when I've found the flow it's fine, getting started is the problem. I think faster than I speak, so for me speaking is a balance of focusing on remembering only the next sentence while avoiding tripping myself up on the current one. Slip on either, and I'll lose my place and stall out.
So I write a short dummy script, a couple of sentences, to start with. Make all the mistakes there but force the process of churning through sentences, and by the time I hit the actual content I'm primed to go. Reciting it mentally works, but for recording I hit record first and trim it out after. By the time I'm there the worst of the camera fright will be out and I'll have enough momentum to keep powering through each line.
Doesn't fix the rest of my problems with public speaking, but it gets me over the hump to start.
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Nightly Notes
At least I can stand the sound of my voice and the sight of my face. That's the baseline for practice and rerecording. Without either I'd be doing worse than I am.
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