03/25/2025
Do you wonder what it’s like to be interviewed by the team at Anthem Multimedia?
I couldn’t say exactly, but I can tell you what it’s like from our end.
First, your interview begins weeks before we even meet. If there’s information about you in the public sphere, I’ve already found it. (Hey, you can take the filmmaker out of journalism, but you can’t take journalism out of the filmmaker).
We’ve been brainstorming about how to best tell your story, given what we know and the narrative goals of the project. Your question set is pages long, divided into categories, and obsessively edited, ordered and re-ordered. We want to make the most of our time with you.
You arrive on set and see orderly commotion and piles of lights, stands, wires, and cameras (we affectionately call all of this “gak”). Maybe we take you first to hair and makeup (the brilliant Rosie stands ever-ready with a puff and a gloss), audio-master Adam outfits you with a microphone, and sooner or later you find yourself in The Chair.
(Not that chair - we’re nice.)
It’s bright up there in the chair, but not hot anymore since we use LED lights now. We fuss and adjust until everything is Dylan Perfect (which is an extreme version of ‘perfect’), and then it’s time. We get to chat.
This is my favorite part, and will be yours too, I hope. My first order of business is to get you out of your head and into the moment - to make you forget about all the lights and cameras and mirrors and wires and people. We plan for it to be clunky at first, which is why I will ask you easy “in the now” questions. Like, “tell me about your life today.”
We keep rolling through because we’re on a journey. My goal is to create a space that’s responsive and sensitive enough to draw out the pictures in your mind clearly and beautifully. To help you get to words that articulate your perspectives in the best possible way – and to capture it when you do, in 6K.
It’s at once complicated and supremely simple. Movie magic and production tumult silenced by connection and listening.
And then, we’re done! Well, you’re done. Next up is post-production and that is another extraordinary chapter entirely.
So what is it like to be interviewed by us? Can’t tell you precisely, but I certainly hope you find out.
