I'm A TV Star! ^_^
Yesterday marked the beginning of what I hope to be a long and beautiful relationship. Old Autos Television (a Canadian tv show, broadcast on what I understand to be a specialty station) picked me up at the Comic Con a few weeks ago. They spoke with me about my experience and projects, I auditioned for them, and knocked off their socks. We've been talking over the last week or so about scheduling, and Sunday was the first day I got to work. I got up at 7, got all gussied up (you know the red dress I wear to everything? Like the last four weddings I went to, except Julie's? Yeah, that one) and trucked out to Ypsilanti for the Orphan Car Show.
I was fifteen minutes late... but they were about half an hour late, so all was well. It was Rick Walker, the host and boss-man, Ted, camera guy and resident rockstar, and Elyse, spot-chick like me, pro Old Autos veteran of one year. ^_^ At first they didn't seem that friendly, very non-talkative. After a while it started to warm up, we started interviewing people, and they opened right up to me. I did my first interview with a man named Jim, who owned a 1940-something Chrysler DeSotto. Rick mostly fed me my questions, but I did ask a few of my own. Hopefully I'll get to know enough about old cars to successfully form my own interviews in the future. Second interview was with a woman named Bobbie Youngblood, also a DeSotto owner, and the sweetest woman ever. During the part where they drove the cars past the stage and got talked about, I got to ride in her car! Beautiful maroon car, the first series in automatic transmissions, the same ones that were used in tanks in WWII. We wound up just sitting in her car for like half an hour, chatting about the vehicle, our families, our lives. She and all the other people out there were so amazingly sweet. They let us eat their food, sit in their chairs, not to mention basically lie on their cars! Also I had called Donald to get directions (I got way lost on the way. Had to ask a hobo) and he came by to say hi! Apparently his uncle was the head judge! I didn't get a chance to say goodbye, though, but I was so happy he came to see me!!
They seemed very impressed with my work. After nearly every shot or buffer or interview, we'd be walking away and one of the guys would say 'good job,' or 'you did really well.' It's amazing how far just a little support goes! The one I remember most was from Ted. We were looping up the mike cord to move on to the next car, and he says "You're real pro." In that kind of awkward, really genuine way. We had lunch afterward at a cafe down the street, and talked and talked for like an hour and a half. They paid me for the day, so I could see some return straight off, and will be issuing checks (cheques... Canadians!) every two weeks henceforth. They were really enthusiastic about my work in the future, saying almost exactly that with the skills I have, and looking how I do, I can and will make a shitload of money.
Which is what every girl likes to hear, right? ^_~
I was fifteen minutes late... but they were about half an hour late, so all was well. It was Rick Walker, the host and boss-man, Ted, camera guy and resident rockstar, and Elyse, spot-chick like me, pro Old Autos veteran of one year. ^_^ At first they didn't seem that friendly, very non-talkative. After a while it started to warm up, we started interviewing people, and they opened right up to me. I did my first interview with a man named Jim, who owned a 1940-something Chrysler DeSotto. Rick mostly fed me my questions, but I did ask a few of my own. Hopefully I'll get to know enough about old cars to successfully form my own interviews in the future. Second interview was with a woman named Bobbie Youngblood, also a DeSotto owner, and the sweetest woman ever. During the part where they drove the cars past the stage and got talked about, I got to ride in her car! Beautiful maroon car, the first series in automatic transmissions, the same ones that were used in tanks in WWII. We wound up just sitting in her car for like half an hour, chatting about the vehicle, our families, our lives. She and all the other people out there were so amazingly sweet. They let us eat their food, sit in their chairs, not to mention basically lie on their cars! Also I had called Donald to get directions (I got way lost on the way. Had to ask a hobo) and he came by to say hi! Apparently his uncle was the head judge! I didn't get a chance to say goodbye, though, but I was so happy he came to see me!!
They seemed very impressed with my work. After nearly every shot or buffer or interview, we'd be walking away and one of the guys would say 'good job,' or 'you did really well.' It's amazing how far just a little support goes! The one I remember most was from Ted. We were looping up the mike cord to move on to the next car, and he says "You're real pro." In that kind of awkward, really genuine way. We had lunch afterward at a cafe down the street, and talked and talked for like an hour and a half. They paid me for the day, so I could see some return straight off, and will be issuing checks (cheques... Canadians!) every two weeks henceforth. They were really enthusiastic about my work in the future, saying almost exactly that with the skills I have, and looking how I do, I can and will make a shitload of money.
Which is what every girl likes to hear, right? ^_~