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I've Just been Interviewed!!!

 
 
Mr Tricks
23:08 / 26.08.02
So, some of you may know I work for KUNGFU Magazine and that magazine just celebrated it's 10th Anniversary with a special edition Issue & a HUGE party!!!

So it turns out that CCTV (the Major Chinese Television Studio out here) is doing a documentary on the whole thing... Cameramen have been following us around for about a month. This was no big deal... Today however I was just interviewed. Very weird as the Interviewer spoke only Chinese. The thought of a portion of my 15 minutes of fame being Dubbed in Chinese or Subtitled is quite satisfying... However I'm bummed that once the Camera light went on I felt my face go flush & my mouth go mush... as a struggled to express myself I started using bigger & bigger words comunicating Less & Less!!!

Now I'm quite comfortable with Crowds & public speaking, so this was a very weird form of Stage fright. The interview seemed more the kind one would see in a video dating situation... "tell us about yourself, where your from, what you do here"... than a point by point interview... Which I would have loved.

Oh, well... I wonder who much they will use.... & I'm glad they probably got some good footage of me directing Photoshoots and other cool stuff I do for my bosses...

How 'bout you? Ever been interviewed? Spend much time with a camera on you?
 
 
the Fool
23:16 / 26.08.02
I recently had to give a presentation of my company's website redesigned. Despite knowing what I had to say, and everyone I had to say it to, I found myself stumbling over words and getting really nervous. By the end of it I felt like a complete moron that was just endlessly repeating the same three sentences.

I was interviewed about sci-fi in a comic shop once. I have absolutely no idea what I said. Its amazing how quickly your brain turns to mush (or at the very least something you don't recognise) when someone shoves a camera in your face...
 
 
paw
23:46 / 26.08.02
or a beautiful woman wanting to talk to you about poetry
 
 
Mr Tricks
23:49 / 26.08.02
I would take a beautiful Woman over a camera ANYTIME!!!
 
 
betty woo
11:53 / 27.08.02
Been interviewed a couple of times, most recent was last Friday for a Discovery Health program on body modification. It wasn't all that unnerving, although I was about to have my tongue pierced (also on camera), so it's possible that the panic about that was drowning out any camera fear I might have been feeling. Generally, I find speaking on camera less difficult than speaking in front of crowds - sure, more people might see the filmed piece, but tv's not really *real*, at least not in the way that the physical presence of an audience feels real.
 
 
grant
16:03 / 27.08.02
On the other hand, betty, you ARE a filmmaker.

I remember getting freaky when interviewed, and getting freaky about getting freaky because at the time I was working as a freelance field producer at the time - interviewing people with a camera was part of my job.
 
 
The Apple-Picker
18:46 / 27.08.02
I was interviewed for the local news when I was in the sixth grade. It was very impressive. And I had my first pimple ever on my left cheek, the very angle from which the crew chose to film me. Oh my, couldn't a girl just scream?!

As a child and the future of our nation (the great United States of America), I'm sure I had something very important to say about something equally important, but I can't remember any of it. I just remember that I had a massive crush on the boy who was also interviewed, just after me: Seth. And I believe my parents destroyed the tape to keep me from indulging in some obsessive tendencies for I could never again find it after that first breathtaking view.
 
 
Mr Tricks
19:06 / 27.08.02
I think the difference between a Camera and a crowd has to do with a sence of one-sidedness.

I feel if I'll addressing a crowd, there's still a sort of collective organisism I can relate to. If I goof I can recover & even joke about it in relation to that organism "the Crowd"

With a Camera there's just this sence of whatever I'm expressing being sucked into the vacume that is the Lense. It's like whatever I'm saying is getting sucked into a sort of vortext or wormhole where it will come out the other end at some different point in Space/time. So there's to reflectiveness where I can bounce off of...

Does that make any sence?
 
 
DaveBCooper
13:20 / 28.08.02
I was kind of interviewed by the BBC near the top of a mountain on a trek. They asked me if I was finding it hard, and I said I couldn’t really complain, as I’d signed up for it, which I don’t think was necessarily the quote they were hoping for (especially as one of my fellows had shat himself due to the altitude – now THAT’S more like it!).

DBC
 
 
gridley
13:50 / 28.08.02
Used to have a PR job and the company sent all of to corporate headquarters for interview training. They put us on camera and asked us really difficult questions, then we critiqued each other's interviews. Turns out I did really well in my first interview, and then with each subsequent criticism session, training session, and interview, got inexplicably worse. By the time of the final interview, I was reduced to a babbling, bright red, sweaty mushroom.

Of course, we weren't talking about anything nearly as cool as kungfu....
 
  
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