"Michael came back from the meeting," Mr. Zucker recalled, "and said he had also decided to name him the new moderator of 'Meet the Press.' " "This was a guy who had no on-camera experience," Mr. Zucker said.
After all, the folks at Vulture noted, he has precious little on-camera experience – a few roasts and an episode of "Saturday Night Live" excepted – and may not have the stage presence to dominate a room full of more famous celebrities.
What didn't concern him was that her on-camera experience until then had been limited mostly to televised mixed martial arts bouts, a brief cameo in the direct-to-DVD movie "Blood and Bones" and a two-season stint competing under the name Crush on the reality contest "American Gladiators".
MacFarlane has some on-camera experience in feature films after appearing in a supporting role in the 2010 comedy Tooth Fairy; however, the move would represent something of a step up from his previous turn as the motion-captured title character in Ted.
"I definitely need more on-camera experience," Amy chirps.
In my limited on-camera driving experience, I've been lucky enough to have not made a mistake in a vehicle or cause any accidents.
A camera experience, still dependent on what light, a lens and film or electronic impulses deliver, is another way to look at the familiar, a magnified detail, say, that no human eyes could see in rectangular format, or an action stopped faster than the unaided eye could manage.
In one interview Richard L. Armitage, the former deputy secretary of state, describes for the first time on camera his experience being waterboarded during Vietnam-era military training.
Well, not quite all of us; stars John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Amanda Peet survived on screen and the off-camera experience as well.
Many of the scenes were shot on the hoof with small digital cameras – experience that served him well when it came to Slumdog.
#OddMomOut is my first acting experience on camera at fourty-one-derful".
