The BBC interview

So yesterday was my BBC interview at White City in London. Had to be there for 1pm, and decided to go back to Mum's on Tuesday night so I wouldn't be doing crazy expensive travelling like I did last week, and she could come to London and go shopping while I went in.

I was so nervous I thought I was going to sick up on my shoes.

Walking into the White City main building with 'British Broadcasting Corporation' in 10 ft letter on the building was pretty awesome. The inside is exactly as you would expect it to be, all glass and shiny floors and colourful chairs. The receptionist man wasn't very friendly but everyone else was. There were 8 of us being interviewed, over 3000 people applied and they were interviewing 140 to get about 40 jobs. So we were pretty good getting to this stage, they said.

The other potentials were all kind of like me, we all got on really well and I wasn't over or under dressed - I needn't have panicked so much.
We were taken into a small conference room with 4 assessors in each corner just sort of.. watching us. We were given a task we had to read through alone for 15 minutes and then discuss for 45. The task was to decide out of a load of holidays which 3 we would choose and which order for a new BBC 3 travel program taking into consideration economic climate, price and how it would look for a pilot. It was really fun and we did the task in the time without anyone getting upset or anything.
Then we had to go in for an interview, two on one, where they just asked some really simple questions like 'why do you want to be a runner?' and 'what challenges would you face and how would you deal with them?' stuff like that. I think it went ok, I just tried to make sure they knew how enthusiastic I was and that I would start as soon as I could and could do everything they wanted me to. That kind of crap.
Lastly was a written excersise where we had to come up with a TV programme and decide what time it would be on, audience and channel etc. Well, as I'm doing a Writing for TV module I kind of already had that covered and wrote down my 'Swap My Mum' comedy drama idea. Was that cheating? I guess not.. but I was uber prepared for it without meaning to be.

All in all, I think I did pretty well, I can't have done any more than I did so even if I don't get it at least I got an interview and had a crack at it.

Fingers crossed.