My presentation to show my inspiration (Louis Theroux) behind my thought process of being a successful presenter for our short documentary.

1. The Presenter –
Success In
Documentary

2. Presenter Roles
To be a part of a documentary as presenter on screen is a very
difficult role.
You have to exactly know what your traits are, e.g. Persuasive,
Daring, Friendly Tone/Speech.
Your voice has to engage an audience, it has to be clear and your
structure has to be easy to understand.
Another one of my roles apart from being on screen is to narrate
the documentary, this will be achieved through voiceovers off a
script. It is also important to note this script can change tense
between reflecting on the past and commenting on your future
journey.
Within our group we decided that I would be script supervisor also
which is important because it is a big part of my role of presenter.
The main difficulty for me as presenter is to engage the audience
without being the participant that has the story. To achieve this can
be quite tricky and I knew I had to focus on my favourite
documentary presenter, Louis Theroux, who certainly extracts
information from his subjects without being ‘big and tough’ like for
example, Ross Kemp.

3. Taking Inspiration from…

4. Learning From Louis…
The main thing that attracted me to Louis Theroux is the body
language he uses. Here are some key points I noted down whilst
watching multiple documentaries of his:
A smart/casual fashion throughout.
A very friendly approach to anyone he meets, e.g. handshake to
greet subjects.
Very basic questions to begin with before attempting to discover
their true story.
Even though everyone including the subjects knows Louis Theroux
is very intelligent he still acts very confused after being told a story
or before asking a question. This is something that is very useful to
my practice because I believe its one of the reasons why Louis
Theroux gets so much information out of his subjects.
Theroux also is very direct with his questions, however never raises
his voice no matter what the scenario, he always remains polite with
even the strongest and immoral people.

5. The End Outcome…
A documentary always comes down to the content and we
realise our participant will most likely not give out his/her
personal stories straight away.
Therefore, its my job as presenter to make sure we come across
as trustworthy, that I will be a presenter whom can be trusted.
Its also very important that I ask the right questions to avoid
conflict with our participant, to be a good reader of personality
and body language.
This is a subject that research and analysis is less useful as
every persons personality and attitudes are different and this is
something to always consider during documentary.
The end outcome should hopefully be that I will be a likeable
presenter who extracts good stories, which concludes with a
great on screen production.