So You Want To Be A TV Presenter? (So You Want To Be...? career guides) - Softcover

Kathryn Wolfe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848420625 ISBN 13: 9781848420625

Publisher: Nick Hern Books, 2010

Synopsis

With a foreword by Chris Tarrant.

A practical, vocational guide to starting a career on TV as a presenter.

The demand for presenters in the television industry has never been higher. But, although it s seen as a glamorous job and a step to celebrity, being a TV presenter is also hard work, and demands a varied range of journalistic, technical, performance and personal skills.

With a background in TV directing, working with professional presenters and training new ones for the TV industry, Kathryn Wolfe takes you through the techniques and skills required to become a successful presenter, including:

- How to read from a prompt and use in-ear talkback - How to talk to camera and talk to time - How to cope with live, recorded, studio and location shoots - How to present for specialist channels (children s, shopping, weather) - How to create a successful CV and convincing showreel

Hands-on exercises and checklists will guide you through improving your posture, developing correct breathing and good diction, evaluating your performance, and much more.

The book is also packed with accessible advice and top tips from dozens of experienced and new presenters currently working on TV. It tells you what happens in auditions, and, above all, how to go about getting a job as a presenter.

About this title

Review:

This splendid book covers every aspect of the job...I look forward to seeing you on the telly! --From the foreword by Chris Tarrant

Practical and informative... Kathryn Wolfe knows her stuff. --The Stage

About the Author:

KATHRYN WOLFE is Senior Lecturer in Media Performance and Course Leader TV Production at the University of Bedfordshire. She has worked as a TV director in news, current affairs, children's, magazine and documentary programmes - credits include Breakfast Time, The Clothes Show, Crimewatch UK and Playschool. She has worked with presenters including Chris Tarrant, Danny Baker, Emma Freud, Penny Smith, Nick Ross, Selina Scott, Michael Aspel, Paul Ross, Justin Fletcher and Hermione Cockburn. In 2003 she set up Pukka Presenting, to train TV presenters and deliver business presentation skills. Since then she has coached hundreds of TV presenters and launched countless careers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1848420625
• ISBN 13: 9781848420625
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 198