Confidently Speaking In Front Of A Group

I have a big confidence issue especially when it comes to talking in front of groups of people, I struggle to confidently do so even if they're people I know well and speak to often. In order to help myself with my confidence issues I've always tired to include public interaction within parts of my previous assignments just to get myself used to talking to people, I've done this a lot of times ranging from asking the public to fill out questionnaires, asking them if I can take a photo of them and arranging full on sit down interviews with strangers. I've found that the more I talk to the public the greater my confidence does grow this is why I try to keep up with doing it rather than letting this technique slide away. For my last photography assignment I based it around public opinions so told myself to ask strangers around Manchester to fill out some small questionnaires and I asked them if I could document their answers to the questionnaires on paper, by taking a photo of them and recording their voice reading out their answer, this particular project gave me a massive confidence boost because I felt as though I was asking too much off the public yet most of them agreed to do it for me, I received a couple of no's, it's always off putting but I've learnt to be able to pick myself up and move on until someone else says yes!

I've pushed myself to speak up when I'm in groups of people even if they're just my family or friends, I still feel nervous doing so but each time I push myself to do it I feel better about myself and more confident to be able to speak up in front of peers, colleagues or strangers.

Each time I've been set a presentation to do in front of my tutors and peers I've practiced doing it in front of small groups of family and friends multiple times before hand to get myself used to speaking while looking upon a small group, I feel as though this increases the confidence in myself when it comes to doing the actual presentation which then reflects on my grade at the end.

I'll continue doing these things, plus think of more which will carry on pushing my confidence up so I can then tackle the main objective of being able to confidently speak in front of a group.