The person I interviewed’s name is Lindsay. She is a executive producer at MGM. I’ve known her since I was a baby! I knew she wouldn’t let me down. Right away I sent her my interview questions in advanced so she can have a peek and be prepared for the interview. She ended up sending those questions to someone who works specifically with special effects. His name is Steve. I didn’t know that he got the questions until a week after I sent them to Lindsay. Once I got the email back with all of the answers, I immediately started answering my sub questions. But I didn’t have enough information to answer all of the questions. I met with Mrs.Edwards and I changed some of my interview questions and made a few new ones. *These would be the questions I asked Lindsay.* So I needed to have my interview with Lindsay soon. But finding a time was tricky. We were able to email and text, but Face Timing of Skping, that was hard. We had scheduled days that I was able to call her, but than something got in the way. For example, at first we thought it would be on a Saturday during the afternoon. But then it changed because Lindsay had some work that needed to be done. So then we planned for Monday. She was on an airplane while I was going to interviewed her. We couldn’t get connection through Face Time. We kept trying. My mom and Lindsay were texting back and forth constantly! We tried Skyping her. I started to get nervous. There still was no connection. While my mom was figuring this all out, I was going over my questions and what I should do when I’m talking to her. (Some of the things were a little silly.) For example, talk loudly so she can here me through the phone. Or, if she doesn’t answer the question the way I wanted her to, try and come up with a question that might get the answer and write it down so I won’t forget. At a certain point Lindsay had to reset her phone! (Don’t worry, it didn’t erase any of her texts or emails, I know you were concerned for a second.) I started to worry. My mom told me not to worry, so I tried staying calm. Anyway, before we didn’t have any time left to finish the interview, we just decided that we were going to just call Lindsay instead of going through more trouble. While I was having my interview, I spoke loud and clearly, came up with a new question if she didn’t answer it the way I wanted her to, and so much more. After my interview, I realized it didn’t matter that I didn’t talk to her face to face, it was just that I got the information that mattered. After all that drama, I had so much information that I was able to finish answering my sub questions in a breeze.
The lesson that I learned was:
1.When your mom says don’t worry, don’t worry until she starts getting nervous or worry.
If you read my blog post you would’ve seen the two *. If you are interested in reading my interview questions I asked Lindsay, look below. I’m sorry, I don’t have the questions Steve answered.
Here are my interview questions I asked Lindsay:
- How does a show’s budget affect the special effects used?
- How are current projects you are working on use special effects and how are they helping the show(s)?
- Do your shows use more computer special effects or manual?
- What’s the coolest special effects that you’ve seen used in one of your projects?
- What are the most commonly used special effects used in your projects?
- Do the people who do special effects for a TV show work only on that show while it is being filmed or for multiple shows?
- What are some of the most used special effect companies or artists in business today?
- I know that special effects take longer depending on their complexity. Please give me an example of one easy/quick special effect and a complex one that takes a long time to achieve.
- What’s the difference between a special effect and a visual effect?