This is a no camera zone !

If I was to describe my comfort zone I would describe it as “little” and “not much” because there are not many things that I am comfortable doing. I mean that is a little bit of an exaggeration but one thing I am truly on uncomfortable with is anything that requires me and a camera. Unfortunately for me my mother has an obsession with photos and that obsession has led my face to be plastered all over my house. Every time I walk around my own home my fears of cameras are reassured by the scared and unprepared face that stares back at me from the photos.

This week for my online communication class we had to create a video of ourselves, acting like a news anchor. This project terrified me, if I could not surpass my fears of cameras for a standstill how was I suppose to make an entire video with  a length requirement of six minutes of just myself.  Well I filmed it earlier on today, and like I predicted I looked like a deer caught in the headlights. I was awkward, most of the time I was starring off into space away from the camera, and to make things worse I sound like I have some type of speech impairment, to add on to this my accent makes certain words sound almost unrecognizable but I refuse to re-film it. This experience has pushed me out of my comfort zone and honestly I don’t like it, some people are better suited for these kinds of things, like people who are photogenic. I am not one of those people and I don’t want to keep trying because it will probably make me even more self-conscious. In conclusion I would much rather stay within my comfort zone and  just manage with what I got but I guess as the saying goes nothing ventured nothing gained, so I might try again tomorrow.