So you want to be a TV presenter? / by Kathryn Wolfe.
Publisher: London : Nick Hern, 2010Description: 192 p. ; 22 cm001: 43568ISBN: 9781848420625 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Television personalities -- Vocational guidance | Television announcing -- Vocational guidance | Performing ArtsDDC classification: 791.45 WOL LOC classification: PN1992.8.A6Summary: This work takes the reader step-by-step through over 50 topics including how to read from a prompt and use in-ear talkback, how to talk to camera and talking to time, children's TV presenting, shopping channel presenting, and much more.| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A practical, vocational guide to starting a career on television as a presenter. With a background in television, directing, working with professional presenters, and training new ones for the television industry, Kathryn Wolfe takes you through the techniques and skills required to become a successful presenter.
This work takes the reader step-by-step through over 50 topics including how to read from a prompt and use in-ear talkback, how to talk to camera and talking to time, children's TV presenting, shopping channel presenting, and much more.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Foreword (p. ix)
- Introduction (p. 1)
- Before you start (p. 4)
- Part 1 Why?
- Why now? (p. 7)
- Why me? (p. 10)
- Why presenting? (p. 12)
- Part 2 What?
- What makes a good TV presenter? (p. 15)
- What are the differences between presenting and acting? (p. 21)
- What are the similarities between presenting and acting? (p. 23)
- What is 'being you'? (p. 25)
- What if you get nervous? (p. 28)
- What is good posture? (p. 31)
- What can you do to relax? (p. 34)
- What is correct breathing? (p. 39)
- What eyeline should you have? (p. 43)
- What is good diction? (p. 46)
- What kind of energy do you need? (p. 53)
- What should you wear? (p. 54)
- What if you are grey, wrinkly, mature or overweight? (p. 57)
- Part 3 How?
- How to talk to camera (p. 59)
- How to talk to time (p. 64)
- How to memorise scripts (p. 70)
- How to write scripts (p. 74)
- How to present in studios and on location (p. 78)
- How to present live and recorded programmes (p. 86)
- How to walk and talk (p. 88)
- How to read from a prompt without looking like you are reading (p. 90)
- How to work with in-ear talkback (p. 94)
- How to interview (p. 99)
- How to do vox pops (p. 103)
- How to be a children's TV presenter (p. 109)
- How to do 'makes' and 'demos' (p. 114)
- How to be a weather presenter (p. 116)
- How to present for different screens (p. 119)
- How to cope with on-air disasters (p. 121)
- Part 4 Getting a Job
- Where to train (p. 125)
- Create a presenting CV (p. 130)
- Create a showreel (p. 144)
- Where to find presenting jobs (p. 149)
- What happens in presenting auditions (p. 160)
- What happens in presenting interviews (p. 165)
- Getting an agent (p. 168)
- What a producer is looking for (p. 171)
- How to be a one-take wonder (p. 179)
- Part 5 Top Tips and Troubleshooting (p. 183)
- Epilogue
- The professionals speak... (p. 187)
- Appendices
- Resources (p. 191)
- Short, timed scripts (p. 194)
- Checklists (p. 196)
- Acknowledgements (p. 198)
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