TV News London's Essential Starter and Advanced Media Training courses have yet another success story following the attendance of Sarah Whitehead, an international lecturer and pet behaviour counsellor, who runs the Clever Dog Company chain of puppy and dog training classes across the South of England.
Sarah is the author of more than twenty behavioural and training books, booklets and videos including 'Puppy Training for Children' and 'The Puppy Survival Guide' and a regular contributor to the specialist press, is a feature writer for Dogs Today, and is frequently quoted in the nationals.
Before coming to TV News London, Sarah had a few short TV appearances on C4 'Pet Rescue', BBC 'Barking Mad', ITV 'Give a Pet A Home', and C4 Open House with Gloria Hunniford, but she had never done any media training. However since her media training with TV News London, taking both starter and advanced media training, she has developed and gained more confidence with her interview techniques and strategies and has already begun to raise her profile in the media. Sarah told us recently:
"All your training has been so useful in the last few weeks. Already in 2011 I've had the opportunity to do two hour-long sessions of live TV on Ideal World shopping channel promoting my new DVDs. I certainly wouldn't have been nearly so confident without your courses - especially since I had to talk and train two dogs at the same time!
I also did an interview on BBC Radio Four, 'Woman's Hour' - a light-hearted debate about dogs. Should you share your bed with your pet? I really enjoyed it and put my training with you into practice. Of course, there are always things that I could perfect, but your strategies helped enormously and must have paid off as that segment of the show was repeated again on Saturday's 'Weekend Woman's Hour' with the pick of the week's interviews.
"Thanks again for your expertise - I just thought I'd let you know how useful it is proving!"
For more information or to book on our starter and advanced media courses please call us on 0208 275 8854 to discuss your needs.
For more information on Clever Dog Company visit www.cleverdogcompany.com
Published
23 February 2011
For the third year running TV News London has run a successful media training workshop for the Waltham Forest Youth Ambassadors. Always a pleasure to work with, fourteen lively and excited teenage ambassadors took part in a TV training session where they learnt how to speak to the camera and interviewer, firstly face to face with the interviewer and then down the line talking into the camera.
The Waltham Forest Youth Ambassadors are young people from schools and colleges in the borough, selected to be youth representatives. They are charged with making sure the younger voices of the local community are heard during the organisation and run up to the 2012 Olympics.
Our trainer, Claudia Sermbezis, who ran the workshop really got the youth ambassadors to think about why they wanted to be an ambassador for their borough and what they hoped to achieve from it, and she also encouraged them to tell their stories and experiences in a way that would grab a viewers attention and get their messages across effectively and show their passion and true personality.
Claudia also did breathing exercises with them and gave them techniques on how to relax and focus and prepare for interviews as seen in the pictures left.
The 2012 Project Manager said on the day..
“I think Claudia really spotted the individual characters of the Ambassadors and gave them tips on 
how to make use of it on camera. Overall it was a very good session and your team were a pleasure to work with.”
With the 2012 Olympics getting closer and closer, there will be many media opportunities for the Youth Ambassadors and we at TV News London are sure the training we have given them will be put to good use. We look forward to seeing them on television talking about the Olympics in 2012.
For more info on Waltham Forest Youth Ambassadors go here
Published
23 March 2010
