1st Edition
The TV Presenter's Career Handbook How to Market Yourself in TV Presenting
Introduction; PART 1 – REALITY CHECK; Personality check; Skills check; Marketing check; Career check; PART 2 – ON THE CASE; Children’s presenting; Corporate presenting; Financial presenting; Food & Drink presenting; International presenting; Local TV and student TV presenting; News presenting; Science presenting; Shopping presenting; Sports presenting; Technology presenting; Working in TV production; PART 3 – CHANNEL YOUR IDEAS; What to do with your TV idea; Setting up your own internet channel; PART 4 – USING VIDEO; Shooting and editing; audio; PART 5 – USING NEW MEDIA; YouTube and blogs; PART 6 - USING RADIO; TV and radio; The breadth of radio; Radio training and skills; Reels and breaking in; Final thoughts; List of contributors; Acknowledgements
Biography
Kathryn Wolfe is a highly experienced TV Director with credits including BBC’s Breakfast Time, Record Breakers, The Clothes Show, Teletubbies and Tweenies, and since 2006 she’s been Course Leader Television Production and Senior Lecturer Media Performance at the University of Bedfordshire. For more than ten years she has devised and delivered short courses in TV Presenting across the UK, in addition to delivering TV presenter training in HE, coaching hundreds of TV presenters and launching countless careers. See www.pukkapresenting.co.uk
"Oh Kathryn! Why didn’t you write this book 20 years ago?! If you read this book and don’t cultivate a successful presenting career, you didn’t read it properly." - Ortis Deley, Presenter, The Gadget Show
"This is a smart, well-planned, and valuable handbook which is chock-full of useful material." - Dr. Paul Elsam, Senior Lecturer in Performance, Teesside University, UK
