Package 2: Home Construction in Tallahassee Up or Down?

My second package assignment is on “Home construction in Tallahassee up or down?” At first this topic seemed east, until I tried calling the Florida Home Builders Association for three straight days and didn’t get an answer.

Mind you, this is before my group, group “A” got their cameras. Because when we get our cameras we only have three days to shoot TWO PACAKGES!

So, prior to the distribution of the cameras, I’m trying to get my interviewees lined up. But, luckily, I’m a very persistent person. I keep calling and calling, and I call and different times too.

Finally! On my way to class, I get a hold of Paul Thompson, FHBA’s executive officer, and I setup an interview for Tuesday, group “A’s” first day with the camera.

We do the interview, very nice guy, but I still do not have a laymen or a lot of good B-ROLL! So, I ask him if he knows of any constructions sites or new neighborhoods where I could get footage and interviews, and he tells me that there’s a couple down Thomasville road.

So, I go down there that same day and it’s a gold mine for b-roll and SOTs. I went to a random newly constructed home and the owner was Art Myers of WCTV. I have to admit it was a little nerve wrecking interviewing someone, who could tell if your doing it right, wrong etc. But, it worked out and he was a great SOT. So, I get some more b-roll and went home after the interview.

But, when I got home, I realized my shot was cutting Mr. Myers head off! So I edited the parts of the package I could, and went to another newly constructed neighborhood the next day. I surely was about to go back to Mr. Myers’ house and say “hey can I get another interview because I’m a bad journalist? “

So I canvased the new neighborhood for a SOT and got one immediately. After that interview I was finished with package two.

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