I sure hope you made adjustments like these! It shows that you placed your audience’s experience above your own personal comfort.Ĭommunicating clearly to your audience on video requires these cheats, or let’s just call them, adjustments as well. Gestured larger or moved more when on a larger stage?.Adjusted the volume of your voice based on the acoustics of the room or the size of the group?.Moved closer to your audience to encourage a response?.Positioned yourself sideways next to a large screen or monitor, face straight ahead and body slightly angled to avoid turning your back on your audience?.For example, when presenting face-to-face have you ever: I hear you, but consider this: If you’ve led a meeting or given a presentation or demo in-person, you have likely cheated for your audience’s benefit many times – until it became natural. “But Julie, I just want to be natural on camera!” If you want to communicate as authentically as possible in virtual meetings, calls or recordings – it may sound contradictory – but you also need to cheat for the camera for your audience’s benefit. These adjustments initially feel awkward to the actor, but they allow the audience to have a near in-person experience by gaining a) a better sightline, b) a more “authentic” experience, and c) a deeper understanding of what the actors are thinking and feeling. (That’s why they call them mouthwash shots – as in, “I hope the other actor used mouthwash!”)Īctors and other on-camera professionals cheat for the camera all the time for the audience’s benefit. They are also standing way, way closer to each other than you would ever stand in real life. Instead they “cheat out” by tilting their heads towards the camera so that you, the audience, can see their expressions and be drawn into the conversation. When you see two actors talking on a film or tv show, you rarely see their profiles. Here’s an example of Cheating for the Camera on screen: And since the camera can magnify, miss, or distort things, the view is much different on screen than what they would see in person. That’s because the camera represents what the audience will see on their screens.

“Cheat for the camera” is a common direction given to actors on a film or video shoot and it simply means adjusting their behavior to benefit their audience.

I’m no fan of cheating, except when it comes to cheating for the camera!

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