Some of the things potential ABC3 hosts should be made to do…

Friday: a normal day for the most of us; the end of a working week so it’s time to party; Thank God It’s Friday; sleep-in Saturday.

However for the lucky 41, this Friday is “ABC3 potential host bootcamp training session 1″ time! I don’t know what this exactly entails but it does sort of sound like something participants of “The Biggest Loser” get put through. I wonder if this will include jumping through tyres, crawling under nets through mud and filth, eating cold hard rations… and if it doesn’t, then it definitely should! (Please take note here, ABC3 staff.)

Anyway these are a few things that I personally think should be included into their training sessions. (Once again staff, please concentrate on below).

1. As with any job that has a lot of interaction with people, a killer smile is a great asset. A Smile School session at the bootcamp sounds like a great idea – just make sure you have plenty of Vaseline to go around!

2. If you’re going to be working with children, then you should be fit enough to keep up with them. Thus I present to you the be all and end all of exercise – the Bunny Hop. Three times a day, five times a week and I’ll guarantee you’ll be able to keep up with a active, sugar-consuming kid!

3. Everything in this video; need I say more? Come on, got to show your skills man!

ABC3 writes back!

Contact made! Remember the previous post about me emailing some questions over to ABC3, well someone there has written back. This is a fantastic response and fingers crossed that I will get everyone’s questions answered. Below is the list of questions that I’ve sent over:

1. One of the most popular question flying around the message board concerns the selection criteria for ABC3. Can you elaborate a bit more about this?

2. As this is a television medium, how important was physical attractiveness in choosing a host or was it more of a balance with other things? Gender? Race? Age?

3. This is a question straight from the message board: Was ‘techness’ of video a factor? In other words, were applicants who provided a better quality video instead of a pixelated one have more of an advantage than others? In that same vein, did gimmicks such as the cereal box/life-size cardboard picture/etc, help elevate those applicants?

4. How many people were involved in the selection process and who are they?

5. Lastly, please tell us how was the experience of watching over 5000 videos?! How long did this process take? I think this was another question that fascinated a lot of us especially since we never really thought that that many people would apply. What did you do to keep the focus on all those videos/applications/pictures? Tons of coffee? Popcorn?

Watch here and I’ll keep you guys updated!

MeOn3 video application

By the way, this was my video application for ABC3.

Thanks for watching!

I wonder what was the selection criteria for ABC3?

Hmm, this question has been on my mind and the minds of my fellow applicants for the past two weeks… Basically the entire process reads like a regular job application and so I can’t help but wonder what went through the mind of the selectors as they culled our numbers down to their chosen few.

I personally would be very interested in finding out: is it all about the physical aspect, did selectors look beyond the photos (because after all they did have over 5000 to get through in a short amount of time), did people who sent in quirky art get a heads up over others who only did as the application said (this is a bit unfair if you ask me), did they consider age or race, what were the keywords they were looking for when reading the answers, what were they looking for?

I’m sure these are the same questions that have been going round and round in everyone’s brains and it sure would be cool if someone from the ABC could answer it. Let me see if I can something about it (utilise some of that journalist skills I supposedly learnt) and I’ll get back to you.

Update: I’ve emailed the moderator for the ABC3 website and Kim Dalton, ABC’s Director of Television. Hopefully they will answer some of my questions. Fingers crossed!