Week 7: 6 Hours

This Friday was possibly the slowest I have had thus far.

During the 10 o'clock conference call, we did not have much to pitch even for features. We scraped for stories, looking on local Facebook groups and scouring articles and news websites.  We saw that Know EMS had run out of funds and was closing down on March 1, the Coalgate grocery store that had burned down was starting its first day of re building and that an event called the Polar Plunge was going on.

Because the station had covered the fire that burned the grocery store down in Coalgate before we decided on covering that story as an update. We headed to Coalgate in hopes of getting ahold of Kathy, the new store owner. She was nowhere to be found in the town. We stopped by multiple offices and called multiple numbers and were never able to get ahold of her. After an hour or so of his we ran into the town sheriff and he helped us get into contact with her.

When we finally spoke with her she told us she was a few hours out of town and by that time we did not have the time to wait for her so we decided to do the story with a VO rather than a video interview.

When we returned to Ada with the B Roll needed for the grocery store story we pursued the story on the Polar Plunge. We got an interview with the event coordinator and learned more about the Oklahoma Special Olympics fundraising event. We then got some B-Roll of the location and went back to the office for editing.

We edited together all the footage with the stories and voice overs and had two VSOTs for the day.

Cumulative Hours: 44