Facing camera for the first few times is always a nervous thing ? I think people call it ?camera consciousness?. And it happened to me when I was asked to participate in a TV Talk Show on Nepali football. But as to everybody else, it turned out to be a completely new experience.
Facing camera for the first few times is always a nervous thing ? I think people call it ?camera consciousness?. And it happened to me when I was asked to participate in a TV Talk Show on Nepali football. But as to everybody else, it turned out to be a completely new experience.
The program I was asked to participate is called ?Pipalbot?, for the NTV Metro channel (with a re-telecast of the program on NTC national). The host was Rajendra Salav ? a popular poet and cinema director. I knew his name since I was in standard six because he was a judge in a poem competition held on the occasion of Tihar my village club some 15 years ago. He had, at that time, already earned fame as a poet.
Other participants on the show were Ganesh Thapa, the president of All Nepal Football Association (ANFA), Shyam Thapa, the star Indian international of 70s and now coach of Nepal?s youth development program, and Upendra Man Singh, the national captain goalkeeper and my neighbor. I was invited as the sports reporter of a reputed daily.
I told Salav about the poem competition story and he remembered it ? I felt wonderful but not after I entered the studio. I had for a few times entered the big studio of Kantipur Television, have seen two programs being shot there and had given a short ?bite? for the KTV news about sports budget. But all the time my friends were with me. I was too nervous when I answered a question on sports budget to one of my close friend who had assured me that he would re-shoot if I felt nervous.
This time, I was in a big studio sitting on a chair with other four people and lights thrown on my face and cameras and all that stuff. I felt like shivering. The co-producer of the program was my friend and he had earlier told me to forget about cameras.
When we had a little chat with each other before technicians adjusted cameras and lights, I knew I wasn?t being shoot. Once a program got started and Salav got through introductory sentences, I got too absorbed in the conversation that I forgot I was in a TV show. All went well until I asked my friend for a bottle of water. When I tried to open the bottle while the camera was focusing on other side, I somewhow saw the TV set on the corner which was beaming out pictures ? I suddenly realized I was in a TV show. I clearly knew I was shivering a little and feeling difficulty in opening the bottle.
I was a little nervous but it was far less than what I had feared. And now I am thrilled with a feeling that people would see me on TV.
The program will be on NTV Metro, the Monday after next one, and on the NTV national on Wednesday morning 10:30am.
