Cameras

For my second shift at KOMU I worked with fellow convergence student Jenna Pike. This was a prerecorded package story for the 10:00pm newscast about a new light timing system being installed on Grindstone Parkway in south Columbia. My fears about working on a story that wasn’t very visual for still photography came true for this story. We went to Jeff City and spoke with a department of transportation official in his office, then spent quite a bit of time getting b-roll of traffic on Grindstone. I took a lot of pictures of traffic lights and cars backed up/moving through intersections. I made a slideshow for the website, but it didn’t end up posted with the final story. They did use one of my pictures in the “KOMU story toolbox” on their site. Even though the photo element wasn’t the best I did get to take an active role in helping to create Jenna’s story. She wanted her stand ups to be in the car while she drove down Grindstone, and I did the filming from the passenger seat for that part. She had a second reporter shadowing her that day who shot some b-roll of her driving by in the KOMU car. You can see the story here.