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Posted by: Andrew Lampert
If you remember back a couple of months, I was involved in filming for Scope a new kids science show on Channel 10. Well, Scope premiered on Channel 10 at 4pm this afternoon, and apparently the finished product turned out quite well 
. I must confess that I haven’t even seen it yet, but Michelle managed to co-opt a television in some academic’s office at work so she and her colleagues could sit around and witness my 2 minutes or so of fame. Even more exciting was that Michelle herself also made a cameo appearance in one of the stories. So we’re a family of stars for the day 8-).
I think we’ll have to go out and celebrate when we find a spare moment! Hopefully sometime I’ll get hold of a VHS copy, digitise it, and host a copy here on SGI.nu, so you can see us in all our TV star glory.
The weird thing is that I actually met someone from CSIRO corporate for the first time in a meeting last week, and as soon as I introduced myself, he started telling me about how fantastic my segment on the Scope show was. It transpires that in his capacity as a member of the CSIRO Corporate Rewards commitee, he had seen a copy of the show as part of a promotion case for the show’s host, Dr Rob, who is a CSIRO Education employee. Small world I guess .
Update: It turns out there’s at least one of my segments available to view online on the scope website. Find out how your mp3 player works in the eyes of a 12 year old!
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It’s weird seeing myself on TV – so yeah, I can believe that it doesn’t sound like me.
Mind you, the overall tone of Scope is a kind of ‘zany’ science thing, so they were sometimes looking for specific emotions/quality in my voice to match that.
Regardless, it was all a bit of fun – something outside of my normal comfort zone . More than just being fun, however, I strongly believe that it’s a good thing to be encouraging an interest in science amongst the age group at which it’s targetted.
As I said, I’m trying to get hold of a video copy so I can make the other 2 segments I did available on the web. Then you can judge how well I did at sounding like an interesting and interested scientist 
Well, it was somewhat amusing to see you on TV. But for me the amusement mostly came from the editing and cinematography. The bit where you zoom from the mp3 player out is a KlassiK.
Comment by gmwils 09.21.05 @ 9:31 pmYes well, I can’t disagree . As I said, the producers were certainly going for that zany science feel (and I think it’s fair to say they got it in bucket loads).
Still, I’ve managed to get over the cringe factor with the thought that I’m hopefully doing something to encourage interest in science amongst kids. Of course, it’s entirely possible that they died laughing at the editing too, but I can only hope not
nice work, andrew, you did well – and tv is not an easy thing to do. viewing the clip, i know i learned something, so you’ve not just helped the target audience! look forward to seeing the others
Thanks Shalini Nice to know that at least someone got something out of it!
I’ll be sure to post another blog entry once I’ve digitised the other 2 segments – just have to find some time to work on the video!
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