Training for TV & Radio

Introduction

The public is increasingly suspicious of what we see in the media. Knowing this, you may feel even more nervous about dealing with television, radio, print, or social media to get your message across.

Whether you are placing a story or reacting to fast moving events, we will help you to prepare yourself and your message.

Creating bespoke coaching for your individual needs, or for your team, we will cover:

    * dealing with difficult questions
    * thinking on your feet
    * looking and sounding relaxed, credible and professional
    * matching your delivery to the situation or message
    * reading the mood of the ‘moment‘
    * reflecting your organisation‘s agenda
    * being succinct and delivering memorable soundbites


 Aims / Why

In our sessions, our media experts will create authentic scenarios, from doorstepping to probing interviews, for you to experience how to handle traditional and new media.

Objectives / How

You will practice and develop the skills and techniques you need to hold your own in this increasingly demanding environment.


 Equipment / Venues

We use a range of equipment from discreet mini camcorders to put you at your ease, to broadcast standard cameras and radio mics to provide you with an authentic television, radio or other broadcasting experience.

We can work on your premises,in a suitable training venue or in a recording/television studio.

Cameraperson/trainer: Dianne Barry

Dianne Barry has over twenty years experience as a film and television director working throughout the UK and Europe, specialising in social justice documentaries and arts programmes for the BBC, Channel 4,Scottish Television.
Over the last ten years she has successfully adapted these skills to deliver  media and presentation skills training courses to groups and individuals from the legal and financial sectors, arts organisations, charities and NGOs, local authorities and the Scottish Government.
Dianne lectures in digital media and runs herown business developing participatory arts projects with a variety of clients including Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art and the Kelvingrove.

Benefits of filming sessions
We use the film camera as a impressively effective media training tool:
We film specific exercises and playback your performance.
This helps you see immediately the impact you are having. We then use targeted exercises to develop your skills and film you again - then compare the difference.
The learning experience is intensified and accelerated leading to visible improvements in getting your message across.

Training for Television and Radio

Why might you need to go on this course? The following story might interest you.


I‘d like to illustrate the importance of understanding how you come over by the following story which I am sure will be familiar to you. Let us consider the 26th September 1960 when 70 million U.S. viewers tuned in to watch Senator John Kennedy and vice president Richard Nixon in the first ever presidential debate. Nixon, having been injured in August, arrived at the debate, pale and underweight, wearing an ill-fitting suit, and refused make-up to improve his colour and 5 o‘clock shadow. Kennedy by contrast, had spent early September campaigning in California. He was tanned and confident and well rested. In substance, the candidates were evenly matched but the television viewers focused on what they saw, not on what they heard. The rest, as they say, is history.

You may have prepared the answers to any questions which you suspect will be fired at you but have you prepared yourself? In my experience most people underestimate the importance of preparing their face, body and voice before facing the media. The results  can be fatal, given the sensitivity of the camera and the microphone!

I will introduce you to relaxation techniques, voice production and general confidence-building techniques. You will learn techniques which will help you to cope with quick fire questions. Most importantly I will help you to show yourself in your best light.