Get Your Break: Exclusive Interviews with Young Australian TV Presenters
What do you need to be the next Getaway reporter or Channel [V] VJ? Why is children's television the best training ground for new presenters? How do you hook a talent manager?
Get Your Break! Television Presenters - the first of three titles launching Red Hill Press' Get Your Break!™ series in affiliation with the Reach Foundation (www.reach.org.au) that asks young high-profile presenters including Jules Lund, Fuzzy Agolley, Allison Langdon, Carrie Bickmore and Danny Clayton what it takes to get your break in Australian TV.
In conversational Q&A interviews, reporters and presenters from subscription and free-to-airtelevision - Saturday Disney, Kids WB, Totally Wild, Toasted tv, Getaway, The 7pm Project,Channel Nine News, Postcards, Video Hits, The Circle, Channel [V], MTV, ABC3, and Nickelodeon - tell you what the job involves both on and off screen and what theexecutive producers of those programs/channels look for in presenting talent.
Every aspect of the television industry is explored - from what makes an audition-worthy showreel and when/how to send it in, to what to expect in an audition; from voiceover and on camera skills, to interviewing techniques, tips for dealing with nerves, and advice for live TV and sharing the screen with a co-host.
Get Your Break! Television Presenters
Red Hill Press
www.getyourbreak.com.au
ISBN: 9780980829129
Price: $29.99
Question: Why did you choose to participate in the Get Your Break! Book series?
Pip Russell: I thought it would be a perfect opportunity to let aspiring tv presenters know that there are many avenues to get in to this kind of work. I also really wanted to burst the bubble that to be on tv you need to look or act a certain way, and be something you're not. I thought it was really important to let people wanting to get in to this industry that it's not the case- especially with kids tv (or in my case anyway). No one should ever pretend to be something they're not, so I take any chance I can have to get that message out there
Question: How do you get on a TV show like Totally Wild?
Pip Russell: You need to be on the radar of the tv producers and show that you're natural in front of the camera and have a love for the outdoors, adventure, animals, the environment, and a love for life. If you can get your parents or friend to film you on a little handycam doing a little spiel about yourself and showing your personality (it doesn't have to be perfect or professional) then I think that's a great way to get noticed.
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