Studio Interviewing (1)
The arrival of the journalist/presenter or anchor has meant a broadening of the role beyond the straightforward reading to camera. Live studio interviews within news programmes are no longer the novelties they once were, and anyone aspiring to a permanent studio-based role needs to develop the technique.
The difference between interviewing on location and in a studio is more than a matter of the difference between a live broadcast and an edited recording. Transferred to the confines of a studio, almost any interview appears to take on a more confrontational nature, created in part by the technical paraphernalia of cameras and lights, which add an air of unreality to the proceedings.
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