"Being on-camera is anything but a natural, easy experience. The camera captures our look and sound in a way unlike anything else we experience, and we usually are our own worst enemies when it comes to judging our on-camera look. And knowing what to do about the little things often make all the difference.

Your hands.

Your eyes.

Your smile.

Your voice.

Your pace.

Your stance.

Take a deep breath, and learn some simple baseline behaviors for what to physically do when you're on camera, from what to do with your hands, to where to place your attention, to how to command the audience simply by using your voice...or not saying a single thing.

Allow a humble Hollywood actor and broadcaster, with a background in news, business, drama and comedy, to lead you through the thicket of the most unnatural ways of standing, sitting, speaking, looking, adjusting, holding, and simply existing in front of the lens. Learn what professional actors do to take all that unnatural behavior and look utterly...natural."

After a 36-year career in radio, David H. Lawrence XVII moved to television, and has been seen on FX's The People vs. OJ, ABC's epic series LOST, CBS' legendary CSI, The Mentalist and military thriller The Unit, NBC's spy comedy Chuck, Good Luck Charlie and ANT Farm on Disney, Touch and The Finder on FOX, and is best known as the creepy evil puppet master Eric Doyle on NBC's smash hit Heroes. His film career includes on-camera and VO work on Cars 3, Straight Outta Compton, Men in Black III, Pizza Man, The Changeling, The Hulk, Iron Man, Percy Jackson, Unstoppable, Too Big to Fail, A Special Relationship and countless others. His acting site is https://davidhlawrencexvii.com

Lawrence helps actors create their own voiceover careers with his award winning VOHeroes.com training program, and has been BACKSTAGE's Readers' Choice for Favorite VO Teacher and Favorite VO Demo Producer for four years in a row. He teaches in Los Angeles and online via https://voheroes.com.

This session originally aired during the Leap Into Live Streaming Bootcamp, which ran in April 2020.