New twist on interview (the cat stays in the picture!)

A while back, ZDF, or the German public TV network (largest in Europe), asks to do an interview for a 9/11 tenth anniversary documentary.  They say they'll have a crew in the US and would I be in Washington about now.  I say, possible but who knows.

A couple of weeks ago, they check back in and say they'll fly into Indy and shoot wherever I want.  Crew is coming back from West Coast (Rumsfeld) and going to NYC, so they'll drop by for a few hours.

So they come today (producer, camera guys for two shots) and we set up in my living room, and here's the twist: the correspondent interviewer asks me questions from Frankfurt via Skype via my laptop.  We prop the laptop on a chair, using my kids giant foam alphabet letter squares to get him about head height, and he conducts the interview just off camera--virtually. 

Bit weird, but it worked well.

Docu will be show early Sept in Europe.  I should get a DVD and book copy (reminder to self!).

Only problem was one of our Siberian cats strolling around, tail provocatively high, issuing one look-at-me! meow during an answer.  Enya may or may not make the final cut.