WordPress TV Interviews

Welcome to the official blog of the TV review team for WordPress.tv

We approve and publish all videos on WordPress.tv as well as help WordCamps with video post-production and captioning and subtitling of published videos.

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Here is what I was thinking as far as a format for video interviews.

Prior to doing any interviews, have a list of potential guests and ask team members for suggestions for questions.

Research upcoming guest.

Plan questions with guest beforehand.

After starting interview – lead in –
Welcome to WordPress TV Interview Series (??)
My name is *****
Our guest today is super-duper excited to be here

Hello to guest and ask for some background info for audience.

Ask about current projects if applicable.

Talk about recent WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. activity and WordPress TV videos.

Ask guest about their use or recommendation of WordPress TV.

VIDEO

2 intro panels – 1) WordPress TV Interviews 2) With Guest ******
Record entire video and crop as necessary
1 outro panel

Thoughts on length of video? 5 to 10 minutes? 10 to 15 minutes?

#interviews, #wordcamp, #wordpress-tv

Jerry Bates (jerrysarcastic) 7:26 pm on May 27, 2016

Hey John I think that looks good. As far as runtime, I think 5 minutes is fine but really I guess it depends on the “guest” you have and the number of questions you want to ask.

I do think that you will want to keep the intro as short as possible though, so you can get into the “meat” of the interview, so consider (in your blog post) doing some of the introduction in text, so in the video you can jump into the questions more quickly.
- jwparky 8:19 pm on May 27, 2016
  
  Thanks Jerry!
  
  I appreciate the info. I am going to schedule a couple of interviews and try to get some thing recorded next week.