Coping with the melting, madness, and the microphone (video) cameras of reality TV Reality shows flooding the middle of the television. You can find tons of them - documentaries, social experiments, shows, makeover programs, and dating marathons, among others - you can find a place to get your 15 minutes of fame (or notoriety, if you want).
You can, however, extend your 15 minutes of fame by learning to cope with the fabulous band, madness, and cameras. Here's how.
Casting Call and usability
Before you put on the line of fire, ensure that you be qualified to reality TV. If they want singers, be prepared to your vocal prowess. If they want to dance, be ready with your swing. And above all, be ready to supreme confidence. Remember that even the smallest micro video camera can capture your suspicion!
When you walk into an audition for a reality show, be yourself. It may sound too cliche for you, but it is true. There will be more than one interview before the final distribution is chosen, then the institution you are the beginning and following crucial talks next.
Regarding the expectations of others and the office staff, try to be nice to them. Get to know some of them, if possible. You never know if the micro video cameras are hidden in ornamental plants, recording every movement you make all. This is because the moment you enter the doors of the business you're already auditioned!
Since you are also interviewed with cameras everywhere, you must be comfortable with them, too. If you're lucky, you have to deal with all types of cameras, the manifest micro cameras hidden video once chosen.
If you're lucky and earn a spot in a reality show, especially a type of social experimentation, remember that you are again. You do not need to worry about how you represent and how producers and filmmakers represent you. We just react as you would in similar situations and quit worrying about the cameras, even the secret micro video cameras that can be scattered around the place.
Confronting the madness
First, you're crazy when you auditioned for reality TV. Otherwise, how would you describe someone willing to put themselves under the constant intensity and microscopic examination of 24 / 7 cameras?
Thus, the madness once in reality TV should not be foreign to your psyche. Just try to ride the madness, situations out of this world, you're in, react as you normally would (or at least as normally as if you had a normal life without micro video cameras following you everywhere) and enjoy the whole experience.
Besides, crazy is crazy as the fact. Why not be the purveyor of madness? Or has another way, if you can not beat them, join them!
Cameras Here, There and Everywhere
A reality TV show exists because ubiquitous cameras. You can see the obvious cameras recording your every move, with shows ranging from the extreme of having cameras inside the bathroom! If you have not seen yourself pooping, then you will a reality show (and a million others) the benefit (of doubt)!
As such, try to be as comfortable as you can with cameras. You never know if there are video cameras hidden microphone in the places you thought were immune to review! If possible, just remember there are cameras everywhere.
Fortunately, the public will vote for you and make you the winner. Who knows if one day you will have your own reality show celebrity or your own spin-off reality? In fact, dreams can become reality!
Posted on August 2, 2010.