A history of presenting might be good - I wonder if anyone has attempted
this, paying due attention to training manuals, courses, etc. ? A
fascinating topic since it would contribute to part of the history of how
humans present themselves to camera, and therefore how we imagine ourselves
in front of others or as a public. Grace Wyndham Goldie's book "Facing the
Nation" provides some useful empirical information regarding party political
broadcasts (and the recent biography of Goldie by John Grist is fantastic)
where untrained politicos had to face the camera...
I think that the imagination of 'small talk' originates around here in the
1950s and of course reaches its repugnant nadir today in the inept drivel we
are given from CNN, BBC, SKY, FOX and the rest: over to you...
Associate Professor Jason Jacobs
School of Arts, Media and Culture
Griffith University
Nathan Campus
Queensland 4111
Australia
Phone: (07) 3875 5164
Fax: (07) 3875 7730
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As far as I know, anchors were originally presented in isolated frames,
addressing just the audience. If the two were involved, they usually had
different individual roles, and appeared in different frames, and in
different segment of the programme, not giving the impression that they know
about each others existence (e.g. one anchored the main news, another the
weather, still another for sport - this is still the practice in Croatian
Television - HRT). Introduction of several anchors in the same frame, one
expressly giving up the turn to another, and introduction of casual 'small
talk' - was an explicit move, a new concept. The manner of doing it had to
be planned, the publically acceptible solutions had to be tried out, and the
suitable 'spontaneity' trained. After that, most probabla, those persons
have been chosen for anchors that were capable of doing all that well, i.e.
giving the impression of spontaneity, good humor and companionship.
Hrvoje
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>A total ordinary phenomenon on news tv that everyone is acquainted with,
>in fact so commonplace that it never gets mentioned anywhere: after the tv
>news - whatever particular show it is -, if there's more than one
>anchor/moderator present, and the news jingle and/or credits come up, as
>the camera pulls or cuts back, you see the two anchor people relaxedly
>talking with each other, sharing a moment of some professional insider
>smalltalk, suggesting they're good colleagues.
>
> Is this always as spontaneous as it appears to be, or is it a studied and
> trained routine that newscasters undergo as part of their
> professionalism? Any ideas?
>
> Henry
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