Аннотация:The article explores two media discourse formats, film and TV interview as manifesting thespecific distribution of two communicative modalities — speech and gesture — in the multi-modal deixis of discourse space construal in narratives. To identify the attribution of speechand gesture to two media formats, the study contrasts the plot contents and viewer engage-ment as two major coordinates of discourse space in media. We hypothesize that since thesetwo formats display differences in their plot content and viewer engagement characteristics,their distribution might affect the way the actors employ speech and gesture to present the dis-course space. The research data are 20 film and TV interview narratives with 10 highly ratedRussian actors (5 men and 5 women). The study exploits the method of multimodal analysisto determine the contingency patterns of discursive schemata presenting discourse space inspeech and of discursive schemata presenting object of reference, move and frame of refer-ence in deictic gesture. The results show that multimodal deixis contributes to intensifyingboth types of these characteristics. While multimodal deixis in film manifests the preferencefor metonymic pointing, placement indication and speech event construal; in TV interview,we observe the significant prevalence of metaphoric pointing, path indication and narrativeevent construal. Additionally, TV interviews display the speech schemata specifying informa-tion and accentuating the place of referent within the speech or narrative event. Overall, thestudy shows that there are two basic types of discourse characteristics which produce higherdistinctions in multimodal deixis between film and TV interview formats; these are differentnarrative regimes and different combination of staged performance and spontaneity.