So You Want to Be a TV Presenter?: Discover Your Tv-presenting Potential and Launch a New Career

, by Wolfe, Kathyrn; Tarrant, Chris

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ISBN: 9781848420625 | 1848420625
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Copyright: 5/17/2011

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An intensely practical and vocational guide to starting a career on TV as a presenter.

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Foreword	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Before you start	p. 4
Why?
Why now?	p. 7
Why me?	p. 10
Why presenting?	p. 12
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
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
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
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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