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First interview satellite TV
I’m certainly not that experienced when it comes to different types of media but today I widened my portfolio to include live interview via satellite link. I’ve done TV before but it’s all been recorded so the live element certainly added some interesting elements to the process as did the fact that I was in Dubai and my interview was in Doha, Qatar and I couldn’t even see them.
Actually all I knew of them was their voices in an earpiece but the audio was pretty bad so I had to sort of guess a bit as to what they were asking. It’s interesting how much of the visual cues you miss when you can’t see the other person. I guess it’s like a phone interview with the difference that I have to sit and look straight into a camera without seeing them on the other side.They had called me just about two hours before the interview and asked if I wanted to comment on the news that Mark Papermaster, SVP Devices Hardware Engineering at Apple had parted ways with the company that he’s been at just a few months over a year.
Security at the MBC building in Dubai Media City was pretty tight. Apparently the guards have to see that you have an appointment in their computer system before they let you in. When I arrived they couldn’t find me so I called my Al Jazeera contact and they sent over an email to them. It turns out that I was in the system but the guard was looking after “Karl”, which is the first name on my drivers license, and the appointment was booked under “Magnus”.
Anyway, then it was like at an airport, your bags and things go through a scanner, you walk through a detector and I was also searched with a wand. Then again inside the actual building you have to pass gates, which you either have a card for or a security guard will let you in.
This was a nice experience and hopefully it can lead to other opportunities.
