Yesterday, The Guardian’s Jemima Kiss managed to ask Steven Spielberg and cast members of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (including Harrison Ford and Karen Allen) a bunch of questions via the new video site Seesmic.
She explains:
Seesmic, the video discussion site, has gone wild this morning as Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford, George Lucas and more big names from Indiana Jones 4 join a Q&A session on the site.
It’s a simple enough idea but incredibly exciting; I just posted a few direct questions to Spielberg and Karen Allen (Marian was always one of my favourite heroines) and it’s quite a buzz watching them reply directly to your own questions.
Seesmic is quite intimate too – like most people, I just use my webcam and was still wearing my pyjamas when I recorded. But hey, pyjamas have a good internet heritage.
Here is Jemima asking him about his plans for the small screen and the interactivity of the web:
And Spielberg then replied:
Jemima also asked Steven how the Indy films fit into his wider body of work:
Harrison Ford talks about the first day on the set of the latest movie:
Karen Allen discusses the return of her character, Marion Ravenwood:
Great work from Jemima and it is good to see a major studio like Paramount and A-listers like Spielberg embracing this kind of technology.
As someone who has done my fair share of interviews with actors and filmmakers this looks like a really exciting development.
> The full interviews over at the Guardian’s PDA blog
> Jemima’s blog
> Official site for Seesmic
> Loic Le Meur blog with more details on how the interviews worked
> Techcrunch on Seesmic
