International Exposure?
This morning, something unexpected happened in the ofice while I was preparing the survey packets for Newsbreak’s special election project—a TV crew from British Brodcasting Corporation came.
There were only three of us in the office: Miss Maritess Vitug, the editor-in-chief, editorial assistant Cecille Santos and yours truly. The BBC news team interviewed Miss Vitug for several minutes. Perhaps one of the production staff of BBC noticed that there were no good visuals for their story so he came up with an idea (or was it gimmick?): get a video of Miss Vitug while she is talking to her reporters. But there were no reporters yet in the office so the staff asked Miss Vitug, Miss Cecille and me to sit around a table and pretend that we are on an editorial conference. The shoot lasted for four minutes.
After the “editorial conference”, Miss Cecille said, “Ibang level na ito, pang-international na. Sana nakapaglipstick man lang ako.” I laughed but felt sad afterwards after I realized how unglamorous I looked during that time. I was not even wearing a polo or long sleeve. Still, I am excited to see the report of BBC. I just want to know how I look on television and if my performance can earn me an Oscar nod.
