I entered into a 30-day video challenge. We're producing a video a (business) day for the month of October: that's 22 videos. This is video #13! Let me know what you think!

Here a list of my fellow challengers for the 30-day Video Challenge:

- Jen of The Social Girl Traveler: [ Ссылка ]

- Tanya Alvarez of OwnersUp: [ Ссылка ]

- Aram Kadikian of Nut Genius: [ Ссылка ]

- Chris Bournea, writer & documentary filmmaker: [ Ссылка ]

- Juliana Marulanda of Scale Time: youtube- [ Ссылка ]

- Kasenia (Eric Brief) of Breakfast Criminals: [ Ссылка ]

- Daniel Beatty of Atlanta Architect Images: [ Ссылка ]

Lidia Bonilla of House of Plume: [ Ссылка ]

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VIDEO TRANSCRIPT: So, what advice can I give you on looking good in front of the camera? There are a couple of tips I can go over and I will. But, the bottom line of all bottom lines is be yourself. Be authentic. And I know authentic is a hugely overused word, but I'm going to say it again: Just be authentic. I used to script myself and then I would set up this whole rig with a teleprompter and I had like a controlled background, you know, with a big sheet. And it was a whole big production and just to shoot two little videos would take me a whole day and it was a nightmare. And then I started blogging and the blogging I figured, you know, it's just a quick bit of advice, much like I'm doing right now. And I just shot these with my camera, with my iPhone camera at my desk. Didn't bother much with make-up, didn't bother much with anything, and just sort of talked off the cuff about things that I know about really well. And, would you know it, all of a sudden people are commenting and like: Oh, these videos are great and we love it and you look great and we loved seeing you. And I'm like: "Oh, ok." So, all these like very serious videos that I shot for my website are like: "mmm, whatever". And the ones that I'm sort of casually shooting for my blog are soliciting all this great feedback. So, as far as actual tips go: Unless you are a wardrobe designer, or a stylist, I would keep it neutral with your wardrobe. You want people to focus on you and not on what you're wearing necessarily. I keep it in solid colors, I keep it in neutral tones, I don't wear contrasty colors if possible, so I try not to mix black and white, unless it's a pattern within a shirt, but you know, not a black blazer with a white shirt, or a white blouse under it for instance. No clunky jewelry that will make noise. Especially people like me who talk with their hands all the time. Actually, ruin a take because of the noise. Do wear make-up and make sure that your skin isn't shiny. That's really the bottom line. When you are in front of the camera make sure that - and I mentioned it before - but I cannot mention it enough - make sure that you are committed to doing what your doing and doing it to the lens, meaning you are looking at the camera and the lens while you're talking. Stay with the lens, don't look away, that is one of the things that will make you look the "worst" if you're not sticking with the looking at the lens. So, no cheat sheets right next to the camera, or above, or below the camera. These lenses, you know, you're so close to the camera when you're doing something like this. If I keep looking down, and then looking back up again, and looking down again, and looking back up again each time I go for my next bullet point and you can totally see it and it's awkward. So, just don't! I'd rather see you ramble a bit and be a little bit less scripted, but natural then looking away from the lens. And keep the lens on eye level. Be yourself! Have fun with it! See you soon, Ciao!

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