Week in Review

I have not yet worked my Missourian shift this week (my assignment is an event on Saturday), so I'm going to share what I learned last week since I didn't get a chance to last Friday.

Working on our ghost stories project was actually a great learning experience. When we went to the event at the heritage festival, Liz and I took one morantz, two canons, one Nikon and two wireless mics. Carrying all that equiptment to and from the event truly made me feel like a convergence reporter, and thus, a backpack journalist. We spent almost three hours capturing audio, taking photos and trying to get as many interviews as possible with audience members all at the same time. We collected so much information and multimedia on that one night, that aside from detailed interviews with the storytellers, we were basically done with our reporters.

This experience will help me tomorrow as I report on the Fall Fesitval in Columbia for Adelante. I've been asked to collect audio and shoot video of some Latin American performances. After last week, this shouldn't be a problem.