[IC/OOC][Story] Newsies

[robkelk]

Of course, you realize that if this press conference goes well, it will lead to a "copycat" press conference at Blossom whether Rob wants one or not...

I can't imagine why! 

To change things up, Blossom's interview will be in a different format: Five journalists will be invited to conduct an in-depth interview in the style of Ideas or As It Happens. Each interviewer gets 12 minutes with the entire Blossom group (and the other four interviewers listening in), and then five minutes with one of the Blossom group in smaller rooms after the hour-long interview. (Yes, I know that this means 85 pages of story in script format, assuming one page of script equals one minute on-air.) Not only will audio recording be allowed, Rob will insist on it (and make his own). No videos, because Rob doesn't know whether Akemi (being photonic) can be videoed without visual artifacts such as raster lines being introduced - still images only.

Interviewees: Rob, Ami, Mii, Hyoga, Ruiko, Akemi. Depending on the exact timing, maybe as many as three other people.

Interviewers: Shouko Asami, Lisa Vanette, Lily Wong,  Babe Bennett (lots of innuendo that Ben wouldn't put up with, but Rob and his loves will), Maico Ando (who only does in-depth interviews, so she should be good at it).

Drawing lots (using random.org's Random Sequence Generator) for the order that the interviewers get the microphone, then who interviews who one-on-one (with the only stipulation being Babe does not get to interview Rui-chan one-on-one):

1. Lily
   
2. Lisa
   
3. Maico
   
4. Shouko
   
5. Babe
   

Then

• Babe and Mii
  
• Lily and Rob
  
• Lisa and Ruiko
  
• Maico and Hyoga
  
• Shouko and Ami
  

Tempting to have Taiga Oh in there anyhow. If nothing else, it might be a bit of amusing misunderstanding where somehow, Reinforce Taiga's name somehow gets on the list (probably from the "Interviewer" and "Interviewee" lists being side-by-side while being written), and someone figured that R. Taiga was a typographical error and corrected it to "O. Taiga".

May as well romanize her family name as "O" instead of "Oh", then - make the mix-up that much more believable.