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Presenting with Camera and Microphone

Presenting with Camera and Microphone. ACG 5216 Session 5. What will we do today?. The Basics. What works? Techniques: Contrast and compare. What might you use?. The Basics. Too Close…. Too Far Away…. Weird…. Ahhhh ! Just Right!. The Basics. Turn it on and plug it in.

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Presenting with Camera and Microphone

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  1. Presentingwith Camera and Microphone ACG 5216 Session 5

  2. What will we do today? • The Basics. • What works? • Techniques: Contrast and compare. • What might you use?

  3. The Basics

  4. Too Close…

  5. Too Far Away…

  6. Weird…

  7. Ahhhh! Just Right!

  8. The Basics • Turn it on and plug it in. • Stand so that the microphone is about 20cm from your face. • If the microphone is fixed, don’t move. • If the microphone is free, focus on keeping it at a consistent distance.

  9. The Basics: Cameras • Turn it on and make sure its plugged in, or the battery isn’t dead. • With a partner as a stand-in, make sure that you are fully in shot. • STOP THERE! Most of your camera experience will involve a professional so you don’t have to worry.

  10. What works? • Who are the predominant presenters? • Politicians, Actors, Journalists, Public Speakers, Karaoke Singers, the untrained. • Who does it well? • Politicians, Actors, Journalists, Public Speakers. • Who does it badly? • Politicians, Actors, Journalists, Public Speakers. • Who does it well consistently? • Journalists

  11. Journalistic Technique • How often do you see bad journalists? Why? • Journalists pursue objectivity. • Journalists are prepared. • Journalists do it every day. • Kerry O’Brien • Comments on his performance? What did you notice?

  12. Journalistic Technique • Sounds like spoken English NOT written English. • Posture. • Breathing. Full breath at full stops, top up at commas. Short sentences. • Expression – Calm and focused (nothing extraneous). • 1st Impressions are very important. 2 seconds at the top of the presentation are the only first impression. • Pauses for thought.

  13. Journalistic Technique • Let’s take a look at Kerry O’Brien again. • Stress • L e n g t h e n - or shorten - a word • Make the pitch of a word lower or higher, or glide from one to the other • Pause... before a word • Make a word LOUDER

  14. Journalistic Technique • To Inform, not to sway. • Calmness, impartiality. • Authority, knowledge. • Clarity, simplicity. • Emotion, only so much as it is a reaction against falsity.

  15. Political Technique • What are we talking about? • Televised political performance: • Speeches • Interviews • Question time • Kevin Rudd • Politicians borrow heavily from Journalistic technique. • Present vague and intangible ideas and values as concrete. • Are more ‘passionate’ – more anger, more body movement but also more room for deception. • Where does conviction end and acting begin? • Barak Obama Democratic Convention 2004

  16. Political Technique • What does ‘The Great Communicator’ story remind us? • That the camera is unparalleled in putting the spotlight on the human presenter! 7 tips for spotting deception when watching a speaker on Television: • Closed body. • Sketchy on detail. • Make more negative statements than truth-tellers. • Avoid eye contact. • Visible signs of stress – diluted pupils, sweating, rise in vocal pitch. • More obvious pausing before responding to questions. • Inconsistent.

  17. Political Technique • Lets have a look at Kevin Rudd again. • What do you think? • Less movement – except head because he’s reading. • Focused eye contact. • Relaxed posture. • Dignified and paced.

  18. Political Technique • To inform only so much as it sways opinion. • Calmness, impartiality, deriving from decisiveness. • Authority, knowledge. • Clarity and simplicity when it serves to sway opinion. • Emotion, when it serves to sway opinion. • Which brings us to...

  19. Acting Technique Borrowed Highly trained Believable

  20. Acting Technique • Morgan Freeman – Sean Penn - Michael Plame Speech • Let’s play the same game – hands raised for the different techniques.

  21. Acting Technique • Acting technique is: • Designed to entertain. • Designed to convey the truth of what a character feels. • Highly skilled, highly trained. • Uses clarity and simplicity of intention. • Uses emotion to move.

  22. What did we cover today? • The Basics. • We looked at Journalistic, Political, and dramatic camera and microphone technique. • We compared those techniques and found that there are fundamental similarities in the way each group uses them.

  23. What did we cover today? • Sounds like spoken English NOT written English. • Posture. • Breathing. Full breath at full stops, top up at commas. Short sentences. • Expression – Calm and focused (nothing extraneous). • 1st Impressions are very important. 2 seconds at the top of the presentation are the only first impression. • Pause for thought.

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