What\u2019s your name and your usual job title(s)?<\/b><\/p>\n
Mark Lawrence \u2014 Director<\/p>\n
How did you get started working in factual TV?<\/b><\/p>\n
I started directing on the teen consumer series Street Cents<\/i> on CBC back in the day.\u00a0 I directed stories that featured youth who had some kind of beef with a product they bought or an item that didn\u2019t live up to its promise.\u00a0 On camera we put the product through a series of tests to see if it lived up to its billing.\u00a0 It was hilarious to see a gadget break down and to listen to the teen testers who spoke their mind! There was a bit of bleeping that had to be done! It was great empowering teens and showing them they have a voice and they shouldn\u2019t be scared to use it.\u00a0The production was quirky and irreverent so it was also a great sandbox to experiment with style and tone.<\/p>\n
What do you consider to be your career highlight(s)?<\/b><\/p>\n
My career highlight was being able to take time off and focus on my kids when they were born.\u00a0The bank account suffered but it was the best choice ever.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s the strangest thing you\u2019ve had to do working in factual TV?<\/b><\/p>\n
I guess it was more surreal than strange but\u00a0I got to test most of the \u2018challenges\u2019 myself in the teen adventure competition series In Real Life<\/i>. We bounced around North America scouting the locations and testing games the kids were going to do. So I ended up flying a stunt plane, throwing boomerangs and trekking in the Mojave Desert, going weightless in a Zero-G flight over Florida, and scuba diving in a NASA simulation with Chris Hadfield.\u00a0Hell of a lot of fun \u2013 and surreal! It\u2019s not something you normally cram into a couple of months.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s something interesting\/unusual about you that most people don\u2019t know?<\/b><\/p>\n
My first name is actually Geoffrey.\u00a0 Geoffrey Mark Lawrence.\u00a0 My parents liked the names Mark and Geoffrey. They liked Mark slightly more than Geoffrey, but they thought Geoffrey Mark sounded better than Mark Geoffrey.\u00a0 No wonder I\u2019m so confused.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s your ultimate career aspiration?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
To become a potter on Vancouver Island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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