On camera, where your eyes go and how still you hold yourself carry as much signal to a viewer as your actual words, and both are almost entirely trainable independent of how calm you actually feel. Looking away repeatedly, particularly downward, reads as evasive even when the content of the answer is perfectly honest. Excess movement — shifting, touching your face, adjusting your jacket — reads as discomfort whether or not discomfort is what’s actually happening.
Try this now. Record thirty seconds of yourself answering a simple question on camera, phone propped up at eye level. Watch it back with the sound off and note only what your eyes and hands did without your noticing at the time. Most people are surprised by at least one habit.
The fix is not rigidity — a frozen, unblinking delivery reads as its own kind of strange. It’s reducing movement to what’s purposeful and keeping your eye line steady on whoever is asking the question, or on the camera lens if that’s where you’ve been told to look.
