How to Interview Elon Musk ft. MKBHD! #Helpful Post

your guys Johnson here just another

Wednesday or whatever day it is when

you're finally watching this hanging out

with a couple familiar faces Marquez aka

mkbhd is interviewing Elon Musk

the first part will be a sit-down

interview which is like a normal I've

done this before but it's like a talking

tech or talking Tesla with so I'm sure

everyone's seen part one but here's a

look inside the room before everything

went down as far as cameras go what do

you need to interview Elon Musk on the

ATM's Marquez's red monstro full-frame

monster of a camera pair with Sigma's 24

to 35 millimeter lens the B cam is a

Canon C 200 and shot up to Brandon have

art for locking that down you know my

job I think is to just make sure

reflections don't occur and hope that

Elon doesn't post anything on Twitter

before we get there and as far as the

audio goes we got a pair of rode

wireless lav mics that has been fed into

a sound devices mixed pre three I want

to quickly give the biggest biggest

possible ups to my guy rich for taking

some of the highest pressure tasks and

handling them like a champ first up was

laughing Elan and Marquez this is an

interview with Elon Musk not something

you do every day there's no second

chances there's no redos if you screwed

it up

that's it fortunately though rich nailed

the audio so let's give a giant thumbs

up for having ice in his veins I do also

want to mention that Elan was one of the

chillest dudes that I've ever met there

is no camera off no camera on mode it

kind of made you forget that holy crap

there is a mastermind billionaire in the

room rather kind of just like everyone

was hanging out talking Tesla the amount

of passion and energy and joy and just

excitement that he showed towards Tesla

kind of changed my whole outlook on him

and honestly he might have sold man a

Tesla without selling me if that makes

sense

so once the interview was done there was

no time to celebrate because things got

a little bit crazier luckily though

prior to the interview we tried to be as

prepared as possible going through

everything from balance and a camera

down to the interview did you're you're

all over the internet for various

reasons

let's talk about Tesla when is rich

gonna get his car because he's had some

issues and I know you've seen his tweets

I've definitely not seen his to eat I've

got a million mentions every day yeah

appreciate your time thank you it's gone

a little factory tour so remember when I

said rich was awesome as soon as the

interview was done he went from running

sound to running downstairs to balance

and next read on the DJI Ronin to wait

about three minutes to get everything

ready to go

Ilan's walking down the factory and

again there is no room for air also I

want to give a shout out to DJI because

the Ronin 2 was amazing and honestly was

what allowed us to get everything set up

so quickly so this was a total team

effort the idea here was I would run the

red on the road in two and then behind

the scenes there was secretly a ton of

pressure on VIN who had to wirelessly

pull focus got a pull focus hopefully I

know how to use it I'm pretty sure it's

pretty straightforward right just look

at the eyes to be good the way that is

done is there's a tarot deck mounted

onto the red that is wireless he's done

an HDMI over to another small HD where

he then pulls focus on the DJI focus so

when it came down to go time in the high

paced environment this contraption is

called a ready rigging the idea is is

that it helps offset the load with the

Ronin - the problem is is we did not set

it up properly and there was no time to

fix it the Ronin - with the red and the

zeiss otus and a tarot deck and the

monitor that is a pretty heavy rig so

you can definitely use it in short

bursts but if you're trying to use it

for someone over 10 minutes it is

torture when you watch the interview

everything kind of seems smooth and calm

and graceful like if you played jazz

music that would fit perfectly

 

but in actuality it is just pure chaos

there's people and robots and cars and

it's flying objects and you're trying to

dodge things all the while we didn't

have the ready brick set up properly so

all the weight was just like killing my

arms again this is an interview with

Elon Musk so you can't say yo can we

pause my arms are tired you just got to

kind of roll with it and that's what I

did to top things off we were all in

steel toe boots which kind of just iced

the cake in terms of the challenge so

we're walking in dodging things and I'm

just trying to keep my arms from falling

off and there was this one walk I just

felt like eternity the entire uncut

video was about 26 minutes so by the end

of things

I was just toast somehow though we

pulled it off and as challenging as it

was and as sore as I was next day this

was no doubt one of the most memorable

moments I've ever got to be a part of so

thank you guys very much for watching

thanks Marquez for having us out for

trusting us Thanks Elon Musk for being

just a genuinely cool dude if you missed

Marquez's full video which I'm sure

you've watched to link it down below

this is Jonathan and I will catch you

guys later

biggest bonus of the day getting a sweet

it's like a stealth ninja hard hat it

looks like a baseball hat but there's

like plastic in there so

for pure science purposes you missed the

padding right here man