april 08, 2009 12:35am
August 12, 2008 CBC interview
Tuesday August 12, 2008
CBC interview
It was a great day for the F.O.V. Today. I spent the day at the Charlottetown CBC office recording a radio interview and a spot on the six o'clock news. Everyone was a great help to me. You see my Sony Cam corder when south on me just when I needed to let the CBC use some of my footage. The radio producer, Pat got the phone number out of his files of a man named Bill who may be able to help with my Cam corder problem. Bob lives outside of town about 5 km's. So I headed back to the Blue Bomber to change into my rain suit because its raining, again. When I got to Bill's place I met a man in his eighties answered the door, who was a navigator on a Mosquito aircraft during WW2. I asked him for an interview but then I realized that my cam corder was not working. So we went down to the basement and low a behold Bill had an entire editing suite in his house, Keep in mind that we are in the middle of the country on the island of PEI and I meet a guy with what seems like a TV studio in his basement. It turns out that Bill has been in the business for some time..If anyone can help me, Bill is the man. After a while we came to the conclusion that I may have to buy a new camera, but the problem is that We have no money for a new camera. Well you can Imagen the thoughts going through my head. What to do, what to do? Then the phone rang, it was the CBC they needed me at the studio for some additional shots of my bike before the evening news at six, this was 4:00. We tried the camera one more time with the help of a friend of bills that came over to help, To my great releaf the camera started to work so I quickly packed up and burned rubber to the CBC studio. When I got there I went straight to Pat's deck and started the cam corder and guess what, the camera was doing the same thing as before. We could not use my videos for the broadcast.. So I headed to to lobby to see if I could clean my camera and salvage all the work I have do to date. I cannot express the feelings I was having, have I let everyone down form Harry to our sponsor , Van Dyke Travel who gave us our gas money. I was cleaning the camera after taking the required shots with the CBC camera man for the news, when another CBC employee came up to me and gave me some advice on the proper cleaning of the heads on my camera. So I took his advice and cleaned the heads individually with a long q- tip and 99% pure alcohol, To my great relief the exercise worked and I was able to record my 6 minute segment on the CBC Maritime News. The interview was a good one with the commentator asking good questions. When I prepare for a an interview of this magnitude, I do not write down my answers ahead of time because I find that I can be a better subject if I play it by ear, off the cuff as it were, I am more entertain g and more apt to be asked to to another interview at another time
While on the island I met a couple of guy's in the movie business that may be interested in the documentary that I have in mind about the gathering of the video testimonials of our veterans, the “National Video-A-Veteran Contest” and the Trip to Holland and Belgium for the winners of the contest. There seem like a good bunch with some great idea's for funding, we'll see what comes from our meeting. I hope it works out because the message is so important.
I received a copy of the radio broadcast from the CBC for my records and I video ed my segment on the news. I have been told by a number of people that they had seen me on the news and others heard the radio broadcast. The coverage by all the media outlets in the tour so far have been very positive.
