Documentary Unit - Interviewing Our Potential Presenters

Today we decided we wanted to interview everyone who had got back to us - We had 3 interviews set for today and we recorded them so that we can review the answers as well. We did get consent from all of them to publish these on the blog, they understood that it was for our work.

Firstly we had Andrew, from the start of the conversation through Casting call pro we had a good feeling about Andrew and in the interview he was great as well. He ticked all the right boxes and it genuinely felt like he wanted to be a part of the project. He fits the role very well and we saw from his showreel that he is very good at what he does - He's from London so travel should be fine and he was also up for the tasks/challenges that we wanted to do. He wanted to push his comfort zone by trying something different. First impressions are really good and he is a strong candidate for the role.

Here is the full interview (We struggled with the sound in all 3, the mac went crazy once skype, and the screen capture were open)

Next we had Dom, he applied through Casting call pro and he was very thorough with his answers, which pleased us because he really put time into answering back. Even though he looks thin, and at first thoughts we wanted someone a little larger to actually fit in with what we are saying, he really proved to us whilst interviewing him that he had a passion for the subject and he really wanted to prove the media wrong. We did wonder after our meeting with Helen that now we have slightly changed the idea, it won't matter so much about body shape - This could go in Dom's favour as he really had a lot of passion for the subject. It will be very hard to chose between him and Andrew as they were both so good - If we could we would pick them both.

Here is the interview:

Lastly we had Jon - From the pictures online he seemed like the perfect fit for the role and he did respond to out Email Q&A but was vague with his answers so it left it to the interview to clear up how passionate he was for the project. The interview was tough as he was out at a cafe which seemed odd and meant that we had to call him via phone - Whilst he was a great guy, we felt that he wouldn't fit our role as even on the phone he was very vague with his answers which gave us nothing to judge him on. He's done good work in the past but just won't fit into our project.

Here is the interview: