The best posture for presenters (Article#13)

Lisa: First-ever AI News Anchor of Odisha TV/OTV (India)

You're watching your favourite news channel on your television (TV) or smart-phone screen. The news anchors or news presenters are standing right in front of the camera inside the channel's studio. There's no microphone (mic) in the hands of the news anchors or news presenters. However, most of them always appear to keep both of their hands in front of their waist, hip or groin area.

They keep finger(s) of one hand touching with the finger(s) of the other hand in different formations. OTV's first-ever AI news anchor Lisa (above image) is appearing to keep her fingers in the Namaste or sharp steeple formation. Some of the finger touching formations are shown in the below image too. Some news anchors or news presenters stand with steepled fingers too.

Some most prevalent finger touching formations

While looking at the way both hands are held and fingers are kept touching with each other, this posture can be considered as a barrier or even a body language style-statement to many people. While every news anchor or news presenter keeps the fingers touching in different styles, the overall posture isn't a barrier by itself. Please let me explain exactly WHY.

Actually, this particular posture serves a definite purpose that most of us hardly realise about. Holding hands and keeping fingers in this way greatly helps news anchors or news presenters to make gestures more quickly, elegantly and energy-efficiently. To understand it correctly, you need to put your legs in the shoes of news anchors or news presenters.

From positioning the palms to making gestures

Keep both hands in front of waist, hip or groin area makes it easier to for gestures, especially in small yet tight frame of the camera. If both hands are kept loose and held parallel to the torso throughout the news presentation then quickly lifting or raising them upwards many times to make gestures takes a lot of muscular force, energy and time too.

This posture doesn't only look good or stylish but it also works very well for any presenter that makes a lot of hand gaestures. Many sales representatives can be seen standing in or repeatedly returning to this exact same posture.

Hence, I personally conclude that it's the best posture for any presenter, especially the one who needs to make a lot of hand gestures during a presentation. I call it as a 'Hand-gesture Trampoline' posture.