This is primarily due to psychological barriers. There is even a phobia of the camera, which psychologists work with. Otherwise, for people experiencing discomfort during filming, they give fairly standard recommendations to help cope with the problem. Among them are breathing techniques aimed at relaxation, working with the body — tension and relaxation of muscles, as well as turning on the camera (even on an iPhone) in your daily life. Moreover, in our time, with its fashion for blogs and blogs, it can become both a hobby and an additional income.
A separate question: how to learn to improvise in front of the camera? Improvisation for an actor is one of the basic skills, literally the requirements for the profession, as we talked about in one of the previous articles. And improvisation on stage, in fact, is based on the same principles as improvisation for the camera. In the latter case, perhaps, the actor's task is even simplified. After all, it is easy to imagine your friend or the most grateful and sympathetic viewer on the spot of the camera, who will not skimp on praise and compliments. And in order for improvisation to be as natural and successful as possible, remember the most important rule: any improvisation must be very well prepared! Yes, behind a “sudden” funny joke, an elegant wave of the hand, dancing steps, the continuation of an unexpected replica of the partner is many hours of hard work. As an example, the following can be cited: actors who played the main roles in the series “Method” — Konstantin Khabensky and Paulina Andreeva participated in one of the popular programs. During the conversation, they were offered an improvisational game: the actors had to read a certain text from a prompter, and the presenter “asked” them acting tasks without warning. For example, read the text “intoxicated" or “stuttering". Konstantin Khabensky coped with this, as they say, effortlessly, switching from one “role” to another literally in a split second. But it is clear to anyone that such ease is given exclusively by practice.
So, if your task is to feel easy and free during filming, to be able to react instantly to any changes and offer a brilliant impromptu, start working on it right now. Put a mobile phone in front of you with the camera turned on. Read the texts in front of her, come up with successful phrases. Move, dance, sing. Act out scenes from performances. And also try special “improvisational" exercises. For example, “The King speaks.” To complete it, you will need a partner. The essence of the exercise is as follows: the partner calls any word. Your task is to say everything that comes to your mind on this topic. And until the partner claps his hands and asks a new topic. The recommended time is two minutes. Then you can start a new “round” or switch roles. Over time, the time frame can be expanded. Life hack for participants: it is better to remember not those things that are directly related to the proposed word (physical characteristics — size, weight, color, and so on), but associations. If you use this method, you will eventually be able to create entire stories without the slightest effort. The main thing is the regularity of your classes.