Radio Presentation
Alec can help you become a confident and assured radio performer, or improve your skills. Alec regularly trains journalists and others at the BBC, both in English and other languages, to become effective radio communicators. Alec trains news readers, news and current affairs and feature presenters and interviewers, reporters, correspondents, announcers, music presenters and DJs. Alec uses tried and tested techniques.
What radio and related skills can I learn?
Here are a few:
- News reading
- Reporting
- Reading the script - getting it off the page
- Programme Presenting
- Live Broadcasting
- Talking to time
- Music Presenting
- Station and Programme Style
- Ad-libbing
- Interviewing
- Two-ways
- Being interviewed
- Phone-Ins
- Problems - eg Nerves
- Portable equipment
- Making packages
- Documentaries
How do you engage an audience on the radio. You have no pictures or film to help as you do in Television Presentation. It's up to you to paint the pictures. You and your voice. It's a different technique but many think more satisfying than working in TV.
How do find your own style - your own on-air identity? The simple answer is through the audience. You are having a relationship with the audience and in their company you will find your identity.
There are more tips on radio presentation in 'You're On! How to develop great media skills'.