- July 16th, 2012, 3:13 pm#401096Glad you enjoyed it, pferreira1983. Yeah, I can't put it all on a tabletop anymore, that's for sure. Unless it was a really big table.
As for the boredom, yeah when I found it again, not only did I realize how *sedate* the interviewer is (her name escapes me) but apparently it was rubbing off on me too. I ordinarily talk too fast!
I did my first play around this time, and only later began taking drama classes at college, and I distinctly remember how difficult it was for my college professors to slow my speech rate down to an intelligible speed. Frequently I was instructed to "take. the. time. to. say. the. words." and was once told that when my character was supposed to be excited, I sounded like Mickey Mouse.
By the time of my senior semester in 1992, my final presentation for one speech class included a note praising my success at conquering and controlling rate.
As for the interview, it was shot at night, so maybe we were all just kinda sleepy that evening.
My Dad went with me to the studio, and I mentioned that he used to be on TV in Chicago in the 60's, so they invited him to sit in the control booth. At one point, he noticed that they'd misspelled my last name on the subtitle, so he asked the guy how hard it would be to 'change the slide', because in his day, subtitles were accomplished via paintings on glass slides placed in front of the lens! The TD punched it up on the keyboard and made the correction instantaneously, and to my Dad this was a technological miracle.
Later, they actually ran out of tape and had us stop for a moment. They put in a new tape and reviewed the older footage in the booth to find a good edit point, and had us start over from that spot. You can spot this at the point when there's a sudden closeup of the comic book cover, although they went to the trouble of having us sit in the same poses as the last moment from the other tape they were going to use.
They didn't give us any other direction beyond that, but my Dad was convinced the 'reshoot' was because I had used the word 'screwed' a few minutes earlier.
And ProtonCharger, as for the Pete Mosen comment, you're actually the second person to say something along those lines to me.
Alex
What a knockabout of pure fun that was!