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Top 10 Do's/Don't's When On A Red Carpet, Kyrstle Coleman's 'Honorable Mention', Plus, SOHH ATL Mix!
Posted on October 22, 2008 2:23 PM
1. No photo opps: A red carpet is always insanely unorganized. And one of the things that urks a lot of people is when you see photographers, etc, trying to jump the rope to get a photo with a celebrity. That shit is both lame and unprofessional.
You're there to report on the event and be a fly on the wall, SOHH to speak. Anything else makes you look like a true ass.
2. Asinine requests for multiple drops: OK, so you got to an event and you interview a celebrity. They give you a drop for your outlet, but you want more. Now you have them giving drops to your Uncle Rosco's start up magazine, etc.
No! Please stop with that ish. Drops are not as important as they used to be. And remember; you are there to push the outlet you work for NOT the start up companies in your mind.
3. Simplicity is best: Please make your drops simple and quick. Most celebrities have the attention span of a child so when you start making your drops long and complicated all you do is take away from other media outlets from getting in their questions.
4. Attempting to be-friend the celebrity: I've been doing this ish for 5 years and the one thing that I've learned is that don't no celebrity care about you. They truly don't. You are there to provide a service. Anything beyond that services is a waste a time. I'm cool with a lot of entertainment people, but I know it's who I represent [SOHH.com] and not me they are f*ckin' with.
Stop with the passing of the business cards. Please don't bring up how you met them 5 years ago at their sister's, best friend's, Uncle's party. Trust me they won't remember you.
5. Keep your questions simple: Red carpets are not for one on one interviews. Please keep your questions to the event at hand. There should be a courtesy rule that every media outlet ask two questions or less.
Certain media outlets end up hogging up all of the entertainers time, which makes other media outlets miss out on their opportunity.
6. Celebrities, show respect: There's a lot of celebs out there who diss media and the red carpet. They want to come to a party and pop bottles and mingle [for free might I add], but don't want to walk the red carpet.
Aint nothing in life free people. NOTHING. SOHH shake off that chip on your shoulder
7. Eager publicists fall back: Y'all know who I'm talking about. The publicist who stalks the red carpet and damn near forces their client[s] down your camera lens' making everyone uncomfortable in the process. There's one petite Asian [or is she Spanish] publicist that literally forces media to talk to her clients. Y'all know who I'm talking about.
All that sh*t does is end up in my trash can.
8. Know who people are: I can't tell you how many times I'm on a red carpet and people constantly ask me "who is that?" Clearly if you don't know who they are then you need to go home, do ya homework and come back to the next event primed and ready.
9. Keep it cool/Charge it to the game: All you media people who add pressure to a red carpet by shouting, interrupting other media interviews, etc need to just fall back.
Why add to the situation? You'll get your turn, and if you don't then just charge it to the game and keep it moving. I was at the BET Hip Hop Award red carpet interviewing a an artist that the world simply doesn't care about. And while I was talking to her, I saw 50 Cent walking right passed me yelling at some reporters that I knew would've been a great video blog. But I couldn't disrespect the person I was talking to by moving my camera away from them while they're talking.
I had to just charge it to the game and try to catch 50 another time. But I knew that yelling at 50 to come back and talk to me, etc was a waste of time and adds more tension for the publicist who's already dealing with a lot.
10. Make it worth your while: Look, now -a - days there's a red carpet for the opening of a car wash. Just because you get an email invitation to come cover an event doesn't mean you have to.
Don't feel pressured by nobody to cover anything that doesn't make sense. I personally have fallen back from a lot of events because I just knew that you all wouldn't care one way or the other. I know the SOHH.com audience. And it's a good thing that I do because it saves me from wasting a lot of time.
Publicists here's a list of people that NOBODY cares about:
Chingy
Any Sports player other then the most well known ones
New Artists [I don't want to mention any names, b/c that might hurt some people's feelings]
Mario
Yung Berg
Joe Budden
Any BET Personality [y'all know I'm telling the truth]
Any cast member from Keyshia Cole's "The Way It Is" [Sorry Frankie and Neffie, but your 15 mins are up]
Playaz Circle
Ike Dirty
Jazze Pha
Up & Coming Fashion Designers
New Rapper [Unless he's got a poppin' single out]
Contestants from any reality show unless they were the winner....
I think I should stop there. Any more names and I feel that I might be getting all kind of calls. But you get the idea, right?
These are a few things that could make a red carpet affair run a little bit mire smoothly. Just my two cents as a blogger.
But Let's Move On...
During her second internship at only 19-years-old Krystle worked under Jana Fleishman, one of the most accomplished and well respected African American publicist in the business. Fast forward to the present and Krystle has been doing her thing. She's worked with or represented Trina, Plies, Rick Ross and Slip-N-Slide Records, but she's now focusing all of her attention on being the top boutique P.R. firm in the industry.
Her new company, Midori Star Media is destined to be a success.
Shout out to you Krystle.
Reach Krystle Here
But I Know What Y'all Really Want..............
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--SOHH Gyant
Email:sohhgyant@gmail.com
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