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Riveting 5 minutes TV Interview

Confident, articulate and engaging TV Talent/Host needed to interview a Film & Television Producer, Director, Editor & Photographer and President of A&E DIGITAL PRODUCTIONS, LLC about his company work and current TV series now available for distribution within the African Continent.

A Female Host / Talent who is very knowledgeable about North and South African Countries with a demo reel preferred. The 4 TV series (a total of 42 TV shows) were initially produced for Western and European consumption but now we have decided to introduce and market the series within the African continent.
The interview will be shot with 3 cameras either on a set, out door location or a chroma key set. There will be insertion of cutaways and B-roll footage (from the trailer) of what we are talking about in the interview in post production.
You can get an idea of the TV series and a better understanding of what the project involves and how the interview will flow from watching the trailer below.
The 4 TV series namely:
Series 1 : ZERO GRAVITY ( Mostly Base jumping)
Series 2 : BLUE ADDICTION ( Comprises of different types of water sports)
Series 3: INSANE WIPE-OUTS (All accidents encountered in various sports)
Series 4: BEYOND ANY LIMITS ( Mostly adventures such as Ice climbing)

if you have done this before, it should be a piece of cake.

If interested, respond with a link to your demo reel for consideration.

Good Luck!
Sincerely,

Carrrie Prejean left the Larry King set after she felt he was asking inappropriate questions(he wasn’t).  She must have some issues that are carrying into other parts of her life as she turned a misunderstanding into a big deal and ruined the show.  On the other hand Larry’s people should have had an understanding with Ms. Prejean prior to the show as to what was going to be covered, so the Larry King’s people blew it as well.  So Larry tries to switch questions and move to call ins but this does not satisfy Ms. Prejean who has freaked out by this time.  Bad TV all around.  So what you do to prevent this or handle it once it occurred.  Here is a CNN clip of the melt down:

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2009/11/11/lkl.prejean.upset.cnn

Valerie Geller of Geller Media International recently wrote this:

“GIVE THEM TALKABLE TOPICS

Listeners love to hear things on air, then turn off the radio and have ideas and interesting new things to say to other people in their lives. If you can do their “show prep” for them for their day, listeners love it!”

Ms. Geller hits one of the key points in conducting a knockout broadcast interview, people want to walk about from your interview and have interesting things to think about and talk about.  Do this and you are there.

 Here is a story about an ET interview with Jon Gosselin in which he walks off the set in spite of having agreed to talk about the subject.  Given the audience of ET, this must have been good TV.

Jon Gosselin ‘walks out on interview’

Wednesday, November 4 2009, 7:14am EST

By Lara Martin, News Editor

WENN

Jon Gosselin has reportedly walked out of a television interview that he was giving alongside on-off girlfriend Hailey Glassman.

According to Entertainment Tonight, the father-of-eight pulled the plug on their conversation with Mary Hart after becoming uncomfortable about the line of questioning.

The 32-year-old allegedly became frustrated when the pair were asked about the status of their relationship.

“I have to let her go in order for her to be happy. If she thinks I’ve been emotionally abusing her, I cannot live with that guilt,” he explained.

“Everything’s easier said than done,” responded Glassman, who alleged that Gosselin “cried” when she tried to leave.

She added: “Even when I’m sitting in this interview and I hear you talk, saying that you’re gonna be more honest and loyal, I roll my eyes like the rest of the world. I wanna see it!”

ET Online has alleged that the couple then had a disagreement over whether they should be discussing their private relationship in public.

“I’m getting frustrated, because it’s uncomfortable,” said Gosselin. “This whole thing’s uncomfortable. I don’t like it. I mean, you’re telling me out there that you love me and you want to be with me…”

Glassman is then quoted as saying that their relationship is “not healthy” before broaching the subject of his children, prompting Gosselin to pull the plug on the

  In this talk Warren Etheredge makes the point that interviews go much better if you go in without a predetermined format for the interview to follow so you don’t have to force the answers into your sturcture.

http://chris.pirillo.com/warren-etheredge-the-art-of-the-interview-or-how-to-grill-a-star/

We keep stressing that  you need to get your facts straight when doing an interview, and here we have a case of  MSNBC anchor Contessa Brewer mistaking Jesse Jackson for Al Sharpton on air.   Talk about embarrassing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr1m-s0Sr7c

I personally hate it when interviewers exploit someone’s grief in the hope of making a good show for their viewers.  Here is some more reasons for not doing it as outlined in this article from the Irish Times.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/1017/1224256892298.html

As hard as it is to believe there are actually people that support politicians being vague in their answers to interview questions.  Although I totally disagree, here is an article from the BBC that supports politicians dodging questions in interviews.  Don’t blame me, I am just trying to be fair and present all views here.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8310198.stm

While I usually think interviews with politicians are some of the most boring material to be found in broadcast media because the host rarely presses the guest for specifics, here is an interview that made wonderful TV.  The interviewer takes the guest to task over evading the questions and it turns into a great event.

Go to this link and check it out, I promise you it is worth your time:

http://gothamist.com/2009/10/06/is_this_the_most_brow-beating_inter.php

Pity the poor news crew that tried to interview a woman at her home.  They got a big surprise as show on the news clip below:

http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=8736606&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/