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Rehearsing in front a webcam seems like one step from submitting your rehearsal to a service that can critique your presentation. The service could go through a

by dpflan 11y ago

Rehearsing in front a webcam seems like one step from submitting your rehearsal to a service that can critique your presentation. The service could go through a checklist of fundamental variables that are deemed highly correlated with successful presentations, and you could receive timely and useful feedback. Is there such a service? @noir_lord

noir_lord 11y ago
Not that I'm aware of but it would be useful, an impartial third party watching your talk would be less intimidating than getting someone you know, hell you could have someone go over the slide deck as well for common errors. ...and now I'm thinking of how you'd build that and how the UX would work, damnit I have enough side projects I want to build ;).
- dpflan 11y ago
  Load the decks and live stream and record the video: Basic screen: [ | ] [-video- | -deck-] [ event_timeline ] Allow the presenter to move through the deck on the service so there is a timeline of events of video and deck traversal. Then reviewer can highlight key moments on the timeline with notes that are part of an overall critique. User presentation is the base. Deck critique comes at a premium. --Edit-- HN didn't like my formatted 'mock' screen.
  - noir_lord 11y ago
    Indeed, thinking client side, split screen for uploading video and deck with a notes/goal box underneath (things like Target audience, group demographics, expected venue). On the backside have a review interface with video front and sent and controls underneath, like "Add Note" which pauses the video and enters the time stamp and note into a formatted list, once review is marked completed it transfers that list into the feedback part which also has a notes section for things like body language and such. Once complete email the user with a link to the review page that has the video and the timeline underneath, make the timeline clickable so the user can jump straight to each note and either accept or decline the review (that way you have a metric of what criticism people respond to positively and negatively). Handling the deck is more of an issue, powerpoint isn't a problem but you will get all sorts of whacky formats (people using Beamer, javascript based stuff), You can generally get those out in PDF format in one form or another though so maybe accept PDF and Powerpoint (or in the case of the javascript based ones perhaps a zip file for techie audience). I wonder what you could charge that out at, reviewing a 45 minute talk and slides properly would probably take an hour/hour and half and also what kind of turn around people would want (possibly with increased pricing for a faster turn around). EDIT: Thinking about it, you could actually have multiple reviewers in key demographics as well for more targeted talks with variable rates. EDIT: You could also have multiple reviewers (extra charge) so that you can get a different perspective
    - dpflan 11y ago
      Hm, interested in sharing some more ideas on this? Like a crappy prototype?
      - noir_lord 11y ago
        I'm snowed under with current startup, side project and client work (bootstrapping is hard!) but if you do anything with it I'd love to see the outcome, drop me an email at ben@metasoftware.co.uk :)
        dpflan 11y ago
        Understood, thanks for your contact info.
- sopooneo 11y ago
  I agree the web cam idea sounds great, but the human intimidation factor is critical. You want to know how well you deliver the talk when you are in front of an audience. The are involuntary physioligical reactions that occur inside your body when real people are in front of you looking at you as a group. Learning to deal with and harness these reactions is an essential part of learning to deliver your talk.
  - noir_lord 11y ago
    Agreed but the physiological side of it is just one part, going into the talk knowing that someone impartial has already been over it and that you have your ducks in a row would definitely help. I once had the entire management of a (very large) company I worked for turn up for a training talk I was doing with no notice, I did the talk which went well then went in the toilet and threw up, the nice thing is after that I stopped worrying about public presentations as literally the worst thing had already happened.

by dpflan 11y ago

noir_lord 11y ago

Not that I'm aware of but it would be useful, an impartial third party watching your talk would be less intimidating than getting someone you know, hell you could have someone go over the slide deck as well for common errors. ...and now I'm thinking of how you'd build that and how the UX would work, damnit I have enough side projects I want to build ;).

dpflan 11y ago
Load the decks and live stream and record the video: Basic screen: [ | ] [-video- | -deck-] [ event_timeline ] Allow the presenter to move through the deck on the service so there is a timeline of events of video and deck traversal. Then reviewer can highlight key moments on the timeline with notes that are part of an overall critique. User presentation is the base. Deck critique comes at a premium. --Edit-- HN didn't like my formatted 'mock' screen.
- noir_lord 11y ago
  Indeed, thinking client side, split screen for uploading video and deck with a notes/goal box underneath (things like Target audience, group demographics, expected venue). On the backside have a review interface with video front and sent and controls underneath, like "Add Note" which pauses the video and enters the time stamp and note into a formatted list, once review is marked completed it transfers that list into the feedback part which also has a notes section for things like body language and such. Once complete email the user with a link to the review page that has the video and the timeline underneath, make the timeline clickable so the user can jump straight to each note and either accept or decline the review (that way you have a metric of what criticism people respond to positively and negatively). Handling the deck is more of an issue, powerpoint isn't a problem but you will get all sorts of whacky formats (people using Beamer, javascript based stuff), You can generally get those out in PDF format in one form or another though so maybe accept PDF and Powerpoint (or in the case of the javascript based ones perhaps a zip file for techie audience). I wonder what you could charge that out at, reviewing a 45 minute talk and slides properly would probably take an hour/hour and half and also what kind of turn around people would want (possibly with increased pricing for a faster turn around). EDIT: Thinking about it, you could actually have multiple reviewers in key demographics as well for more targeted talks with variable rates. EDIT: You could also have multiple reviewers (extra charge) so that you can get a different perspective
  - dpflan 11y ago
    Hm, interested in sharing some more ideas on this? Like a crappy prototype?
    - noir_lord 11y ago
      I'm snowed under with current startup, side project and client work (bootstrapping is hard!) but if you do anything with it I'd love to see the outcome, drop me an email at ben@metasoftware.co.uk :)
      - dpflan 11y ago
        Understood, thanks for your contact info.
sopooneo 11y ago
I agree the web cam idea sounds great, but the human intimidation factor is critical. You want to know how well you deliver the talk when you are in front of an audience. The are involuntary physioligical reactions that occur inside your body when real people are in front of you looking at you as a group. Learning to deal with and harness these reactions is an essential part of learning to deliver your talk.
- noir_lord 11y ago
  Agreed but the physiological side of it is just one part, going into the talk knowing that someone impartial has already been over it and that you have your ducks in a row would definitely help. I once had the entire management of a (very large) company I worked for turn up for a training talk I was doing with no notice, I did the talk which went well then went in the toilet and threw up, the nice thing is after that I stopped worrying about public presentations as literally the worst thing had already happened.