I didn't know where to look
Even though I've sat in for Mark Kermode on News 24's Film 24 segment a number of times now (this latest was my seventh), I'm never quite sure I've cracked it. On Friday, I experienced the new BBC News studio for the first time, and the new Film 24 set-up, which now involves a round coffee table and we can actually see the clips come up on a big monitor. However, due to being abandoned on my own in the (also new, but tiny) Green Room and not escorted to the studio until seconds before I went on, I had no time to acclimatise and, as you'll see from the clip, I didn't know where to look when Julian Worricker was speaking. It's most disconcerting.
Anyway, here are some shots of me looking all over the place. You could make them into a flicker book and use it as an instructional guide for TV hopefuls about where to look when surrounded by TV cameras, monitors, screens and an anchorman.
Mark Kermode returns next week.
posted by Andrew Collins @ 11:27 AM
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Ha, ha. This is the kind of thing that really makes blogs truly great. I honestly don't know if I'd have noticed what was wrong without this, but I can see even from your initial introduction talk, that something wasn't quite right
It's just a shame that you didn't slam the witless Sex and the City. The first listener comment on 5 live summed it up perfectly.
"4 hideously unlikeable women talking about the only three topics that interest them, clothes, men and themselves...misogynistic etc etc"
Maybe you could avoid some embarrassment by telling people these are pictures of Mark Smith . . .
drat! I meant Mark Steel, of course!
Jeez, that is not a relaxing set. It looks like the two are you are waiting outside the headmaster's office.
Nah, couldn't tell you were having any issues with cameras etc!
Having seen Mark Ronson DJ at Elland Rd last week, I now do need to see the before-mentioned Ronson and you in same room, before I'm totally conviced you are not one of the same...
I like his money.
Andrew Collins can't be Mark Ronson as the former doesn't dress like a 1940s schoolboy and make rubbish cover versions whilst the latter doesn't provide a liberal propaganda podcast on a weekly basis, interspersed with a comedian telling jokes about wanking, bestiality and paedophiles.
Mark Steel? Mark Ronson?
Surely John Sessions. Surely.
Chris de Burgh I think
Ah, bless! But your suit looked nice.
Keith Moon anyone?
I interviewed Mike Leigh recently and the thing he said that impressed me most was the reason most films are not very good is that the most important people - the actors - are not comfortable doing what they're doing. The clothes don't fit, they've only just been introduced to their screen husband or wife and they haven't worked out where they're supposed to be looking. 99% of TV would be better if the director or producer had the remotest clue just how difficult it is to be thrown into the average studio situation. But they don't. They just regard "the talent" like they regard the furniture. It can just be wheeled into position and then wheeled out again the moment the segment is over. They don't give a f.f. how awkward somebody might be feeling because the minute they've cut away from the shot they completely forgotten about it.
An actor friend of mine got a part as a detective in The Bill - his big break - and when he asked how he should play the role when his character was first introduced (ie was he going to become a tough-guy cop or a warm cop or a lazy one etc), the director just said 'Oh just read the f+cking script'. There was nothing on there to show the character of his character.
Andrew, that page you have linked to has what I assume is, your last 6music show on it. That was a pleasant surprise to hear the beginning of it.
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