As part of quest 1 for sndbox summer camp, we were required to make a video in a public place giving the reasons why we would want to join the summer camp. Here is my video, shot at a local mall in Kenya.

I was so nervous taking this video. We had to shoot like 10 times before I got to relax and finally stop mixing the message I wanted to put across.

The advantage of having more than one video clip came in handy during the video editing as I was able to combine a few clips and come up with what I am presenting today. I am still learning how to edit videos, so do not expect expert work.

Take away from this task

This task had me stepping out of my comfort zone. This was a really tough one. While I can speak in front of people. Standing in the middle of the people passing and staring on that spot in the mall was at the beginning very scary. I am glad I took the challenge and recorded this video. I am sure next time I will not be so worried or nervous.

The journey to believing that I can do anything I set my mind to just got an additional 10 steps.

I discovered so many mistakes I was making while talking. I will look into making self-recording a learning point where I can record myself to become better at public speaking. Last month, I had a similar issue where I was practicing for a major presentation, I believe if I had included video recording I would have done few dry runs and delivered an even better presentation.

Thank you for visiting my blog. Join me in my next post as I summarize what I have learned doing the last three tasks for this quest.