I’m going to take my mind off the anticipation of the biggest regular season NFL game ever momentarily to write for awhile. Actually, I’m taking my mind off several things: last weekend’s fall break, Broomball, the silliness and irrationality of people who irrationally dislike entire genres of music, Thanksgiving break, some assigned reading…
Tomorrow I’m hosting a variety show, and I’m pretty excited about it.
Here’s how this happened: One of the guys who lives on my floor, my friend Neil, is a New Media/Communications major, and he’s taking a Multi-Camera Live Production class this semester. As part of the class, he and his classmates tape and produce and direct and edit and sometimes broadcast live events that happen on campus–sporting events, chapel, etc. For a final project, they have to write, direct and produce some sort of variety/entertainment multi-camera show of a certain length individually (help operating cameras and such is allowed, of course).
Neil picked me as his host.
I’m a lot more excited about this than you might expect, for a variety of reasons. One, I like late night variety shows a lot. The type of humor you find on them is basically right up my alley in a lot of ways. Also, I enjoy the musical guests; it’s a great chance to see a live performance of a band you may or may not know much about, but the musicians generally take it pretty seriously. Every now and then, something really funny happens, of course, like when Letterman incessantly asks Paris Hilton about her time in prison, or the like.
Secondly, I’m pretty sure it would be a great job to actually host one of these, and I’ll probably never get the chance other than this. This is my one chance to actually figure out if it’s as fun as it looks.
Also, our musical guest is very good, and it will be fun to watch him perform. The interviewee(s) should also provide a good time. And this is a pretty non-threatening way to get this experience: I’m not getting graded on it, and it won’t really be broadcast, so I can’t make too much of a fool at myself. Although the live studio audience could make me nervous.
BONUS Airband 2007 Videos!
Winner Gerig Hall: from Fiddler on the Roof: “Tradition”
Runner-Up Second East Wengatz: from Grease: “Greased Lightning”
Third Place Second West Olson: from Wicked: “One Short Day” (short clip)
Broho Medley Airband Tryout (they didn’t make the actual show, but this is awfully entertaining and fun–as the commenter said, life is less boring thanks to Broho).
Note: There are a couple of other videos on youtube from Airband, but they’re either not very long, or not very high quality, or whatnot. With a little digging you can find a handful of Nostalgia Night or My Generation Night videos, too. Enjoy.
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