I have terrible stage fright and a presentation tommorow! HELP!?

Question

All my life I never thought I had stage fright until 7th grade. I had to read a paper in front of the class filled with all the hottest girls in the school, a hot teacher, and a lot of friends that I knew. I ended up having my hands shake like crazy the whole time while i was reading. I looked terrible. Next I had a duo skit to do. I was so nervous I couldnt remember the lines and this time my entire body shook, not just my hands.. No one but my partner would ever say anything about it. After that I'd skip class and do a ton of other stuff to get out of going to the class and the teacher was pregnant in that time so she had to take certain days off and eventually forgot about 3 or 4 of my presentations and I got an A. 8th grade.. I had one presentation that I skipped out of in the beginning of the year and then I had 2 more. One was presenting my science fair project with my friend. My hands barely shook at all. Although he kept interrupting me so I couldnt have much to say. Then, I had one more where we had to be in groups and then talk about our assignment. I was a little more shaky for that but made it through. Now, I just started high school. I have a presentation where I have to bring in 3 things that mean a lot to me. I was thinking of my iPod, phone, and a pic of my dirtbike to talk about. The problem is I realized that I had nothing to talk about, once I saw everyone else saying paragraphs about there things. I try to think nobody cares, everyone has to do it but I have a reputation of being funny so I feel like everyone will be watchig expecting me to crack jokes..

What should I do? Help

Answer 1

RELAX, AND PRETEND THE "AUDIENCE" ISNT THERE, YOUR THE STAR, ITS YOUR TIME TO SHINE

Answer 2

I don't know psychology.

But I had this problem. I am 25 and until 22 (my PG) I would shake on the stage, fumble for words and ind a cracking voice. That is in spite of acting in lot many dramas, participating in recitation etc. But I loved to be on th stage and to use the best of my loud voice and tall personality! I turned out to be a good speaker and I loved it myself.

What I did was to rehearse my presentations or dialogues well. Not y heart it. Then think about the beauty of having a stage of my own and of the privilege of talking and getting the attention of all the old people (professors) in front of me. Then I would just confidently walk in and look into the audience and DO IT! Remember that you don't have to be rapid or fluent. You can do it slowly and charmingly and not stutter or stammer. Nobody is forcing you and that tou are doing it on your own. Even if you are tense or make mistake it is not the end of life.

Eye-contact is important for presentations. They may fetch you good marks seeing that you are confident. If you pretend that there is nobody you may end up staring up the wall or in to the distant emptiness. It doesn't retain people's attention. You can do that for a recitation or a play.

Hope that helps. GOOD LUCK!