1. COMPERING AND ANNOUNCING

2. DIALOGUE ACTION LOCATION
COMPERING. 1. COPY PREPARATION 1. Writing the script for compering needs extensive research. 2. narrow down your topic of presentation by focusing on the theme and the participants of the programme. 3. Another equally important aspect that you must not disregard is the type of audience your programme intends to address. 4. The ready to use notes must be accurate, brief and organized. 5. You may transfer your notes on to cue-cards. 6. Scripts of your notes should be made readily available to all team members for smoother coordination centering round the three main areas of operation of a programme.
LOCATION
ACTION
DIALOGUE

3. AD LIBBING 1. It is humanly not possible to research, memorize and remember each and every word required for compering a given programme 2. A compare comes to depends heavily on ad libbing which means to act and speak without preparation. 3. The greatest advantage of ad libbing is that it acts as a verbal crutch in awkward situations. 4. Lets your ad libs be provocative and insightful as you use them by staying alert to the ‘wider as well as the immediate world’.

4. CREATING IMAGERY 1. Another essential element of compering is the need for imagery. 2. Though visual images are mostly supplied by the medium of television, the feeling of taste and smell, touch and emotion often needs words to bring them to life. 3. Hagerman identifies seven types of images Visual Imagery Aural Imagery Emotional Imagery Gustatory Imagery Olfactory Imagery Kinesthetic Imagery Organic Imagery

5. VOICE TRAINING 1. Rate of speech. 2. Relevant Exercises

6. BODY LANGAUGE 1. Gestures 2. Postures

7. ANNOUNCING 1. Heard at airports, railway stations, shops, hotels, besides of course, radio and television, announcing has become an inescapable part of modern living. 2. An announcer operates in the realm of various genres. Portions of news presentation and compering can also be called announcements. KINDS OF ANNOUNCEMENTS Public Service Announcements (PSAs) Spot Production Music Announcing

8. 1. Public Service Announcements 1
1. Public Service Announcements These are generally aired free of cost by stations and channels As the name suggests, these announcements are in the in interest of general public It is produced or written by a non profit organization They strictly adhere to the principles of brevity and clarity. 2. SPOT PRODUCTIONS Promos Straight copy spots Productions spots Doughnut and cooperation ads.

9. 3. Music Announcing 1. Disc Jockey as a reference ’covering’ a great range of announcing styles from rapid delivery to casual or laid back, associated only with popular music. 2. A Video Jockey(VJ) is one who announces for TV and video music programmes. The functions of a VJ differ from station to station. 3. Stations employ the service of announcers bearing in mind the renouncing style, pitch, page of delivery and the age that would suit a programme format. 4. The viewers usually appreciate energetic and wity DJs, who can engage them with their jokes and one liners.