First Campus Interview

Well this is exciting and scary. I just got my first invitation for an on campus interview. I may be asking people to help me practice again. I got my preferred date. And also have confirmation that I'll only see them on the one day, which takes some pressure off on the whole shopping thing. I'm taking the red eye back so that I can have the whole day there on Tuesday. I think I might meet with a realtor. Not that I necessarily want to buy as soon as I get out there, but it would be a good way to learn the area and also get a sense of the cost of living.

So here's the two big things to prepare:

We would like you to do a 20 to 30 minute teaching demonstration in Dr. M' course Introduction to TV and Video Production at 9:20am on 11/17. Please coordinate by email with him (copied on this email) on a suitable topic for the day's class.

and

At 2;40pm on the same day, we would like you to do a 20 to 30 minute presentation on your professional work, open to the university community but probably attended largely by departmental faculty and students. The presentation should highlight current and future creative work which is likely to lead to a successful tenure evaluation, that is, that will succeed in juried and/or peer-reviewed evaluation at film festivals, etc.

I had been thinking about what I might teach, knowing that you're always asked to teach. The advice is pick your favorite lecture that fits the time frame. But he can throw a topic at me and I can teach it. I'll have two weeks to prep.

It's the second one that's making me go AHHH. I guess it's the talking version of my Statement of Creative Philosophy and Goals. I've been using that in a couple of applications already so it's not like I haven't been thinking about it. 20-30 minutes.... Show them Killer... Show them a teaser of Ghost Tours. Talk about Live Fish and Enid's Wall and maybe Grandpa's Getaways.