Presentation proposal
Role: i'll be the person talking about the book and with a guest.
Genre: Review show ( Book review )
Target Audience: TBA depending on genre of book, 10-26
Set: In a modest location such as a house with a sofa.
People involved: Me and another person.
http://www.uefap.com/writing/genre/bookrev.htm
A book review of me and a guest being my friend who i'll be discussing the contents of a chosen book. We'll be starting of with formal introductions and will be talking about first impressions,
background of the book, content, evaluation then a conclusion.
I have chosen this role because it allows me to be versatile in how i introduce a book and it works allows me to work on my presentation and verbal skills.
The possible problems i might encounter could be technical such as misplace of camera and moving out of shot now and then, this is because the camera needs to be set in place before the show starts.
The other potential problems that may occur could do with verbal imbalances or brief pauses leading to un-fluent presentation.
The visual techniques i'll be using is body language
The TV Book Club - Elizabeth Haynes
During the first introduction of the book review it jumps straight into the main character and describing the traits and characteristics of the character, this may be because of the violent connotations of the book leading to a more serious attitude towards it.
The tone of voice for this book review of the host is engaged and the guests who've read the book is also engaged while intently listening to what she has to say. Occasionally her tone of voice differs such raising her voice this is because of her enthusiastic attitude and slight anger towards a part of a story to emphasise how it is important it is.
Visual techniques: Hand gestures are used throughout when both author and host is communicating their ideas to each other. Certain guests have the posture adjusted forward and hands on their kneecaps, this shows that they are engaged.
ABC - The book club
The tone of voice of the male guest is slow and mellow yet informative, sentence structure is very organised however occasional interruptions between the speech by other guests shows that they are all engaged in giving their own opinions.
The females tone of voice is very enthusiastic with using visual techniques such as holding the book and kissing the book (2.10), this shows that she expressing her feelings by how the book has impacted her.
Illustrative language is a lot in this clip to show us what certain genres and mood the book implies with and gives us a general idea what the book is about.
Throughout the video all of the guests used hand gestures from showing how big something was to illustrating a chronological timeline targeting teenagers from one end to elders in the far end, this gives the audience a general idea, and because it is a book review it makes it seem friendly, easy to listen to and a open discussion.
C Span
http://www.c-span.org/video/?408914-1/juan-thompson-discusses-stories-tellThis book review show is more serious compared to the others, there is a host who will be talking directly to the audience with a formal tone of voice alongside the author of the book who is answering of discussing questions in a modest fashion,
The first snippet of the clip contains the author reading out selected chapters of the book to give the audience an idea, his tone is voice is deep, informative and he makes the right pauses in between sentences. After this the host begins to talk reflecting on what he has heard, his tone of voice sounded more heightened showing signs of engagement and inspiration, his pace of delivery is a little bit faster at this point, this is because he wanted to share his honest opinions.
After this stage the host and the author begin to discuss about the tragic events that took place and the historical factors behind his work, the tone of voice is more serious and pace of delivery is much slower to allow the live audience to take in what is said.
As for the visual techniques, hand gestures are used but not used as much as the other clips, hand gestures were only used to describe a time period and a overall idea and is mostly used by the host himself. Whereas the author is seated in a more enclosed position having his hands in his lap.
Back up ideas
Chat Show
A chat show is my one of two backup idea since it follows the same format as a book review, instead of talking about a book i could talk about celebrity gossip, current news and etc which widens the different potential possibilities.
My chat show would be a discussion of a celebrities upcoming album and i'll be asking questions on her/his journey to get to where he is today. However this idea seems pretty generic so if i were to do this type of chat show i'd add a twist to it to make it more appealing to the audience.
Conclusion
In conclusion i've researched into different book review shows and each one is presented differently based on guests the genre of the book and the respected author therefore this gave me an rough idea on how i should present my Book review show in the future. If i decide to change from a Book show these examples give me similar idea for a chat show.
From these shows the inspiration i gained from it helped me prep my own in ways such as how the host engages with the guest through how they pause to let the author talk about it instead of the host just talking. The camera angles used it the book show ABC book club allowed me to do something similar into placing the spotlight onto the author.
During rehearsal there wasn't much difficultly involved as the majority of the content was in the text itself such as what the host would say and how the author would respond, for this i've already had a script therefore it was simple by just following the lines on what to say. However with that being said we also had to practice various verbal/non -verbal gestures such using hand gestures when expressing certain words and such. In addition to this the camera angles we planned on using allowed us to throughly think through the process during rehearsal, this gave us extra ideas and really put us on the spot when it came to showing perfect angles when the author and host are communicating with each other.
Our time management during our production was so-so as we filmed a segment of the book show and left it as it is and continued another time, this effected a bit of the quality of the production but it gave us an opportunity to think about how we are to approach it differently to make it better during our off-production period.
The teamwork we had in my group was good as we had to
