Okay, I was going to write a post about our interview experience last night, but by the time I actually got home I was totally beat.  I see Patrick somehow mustered the energy to write out his thoughts on the whole thing.  I’ll give you a bit from my perspective now.

I ran and picked up the camera before I headed up to the office.  I figured it would be wise to shoot the whole interview for a couple of reasons.   First, we’re always frustrated with our failure to remember to properly document things for later release to those that find this process interesting.  Second, it was a good way to have a record of how the interview went.  We’ll be able to go back and watch the 50 min. conversation over again to see where we may need some improvement (something we haven’t done yet - out of fear, I think).  Third, Patrick’s just too pretty not to put on tape whenever humanly possible.

What a surreal experience.   Immediately following, I wasn’t even sure what exactly either of us said.   I found myself in this sort of dissociative place for the duration of the conversation.  It was like I was trying to talk intelligently about something that I had read about the night before - while falling asleep.  Emotionally speaking, it just didn’t seem have anything to do with my life…A strange thing to say when you consider that this project has been pretty much my entire life for the last four years.  Upon reflection, though, the details of the interview have come back to me, and I think we did pretty well.  There were certainly some things we could have been a bit clearer on, some things that we need to find a more concise way of saying, but overall, I think it was a success.

The whole interview was a bit more thorough than I had expected.  The piece is about video game franchises being adapted to films.  I figured we were just one project that would be discussed in the article, and as such, assumed the questions would be pretty surface-oriented.  That wasn’t the case.  She asked us enough questions to do a feature focused specifically on Project Passage.  It will be interesting to see which bits she decides to include.  I do remember mocking Uwe Boll at one point.  Her response to that was, “Can I quote you on that?”  I think, generally, when a reporter asks you if she can quote you on something, you can pretty much count on it making its way into the piece.   Anyway, that should be interesting.  I’m not a very good boxer…

8:11 pm

tags: boxing, interview, Uwe Boll