It is a sad yet true fact that I haven’t done any multimedia work since my final 30-day project was turned in last December. I was too busy last semester with my thesis to even think about side work, and the Gazette doesn’t publish multimedia on their web site.

I’ve had this lovely Olympus LS-10 recorder that I bought myself for graduation for some time now, though, and I decided it was high time I used it for something other than just doing interviews (besides, I’d rather take notes during an interview. I don’t like transcribing).

I was assigned to do a feature story and photos on Drumming on the Beach last month (it ended up being a section front! Very exciting). It seemed like this was a story that would also lend itself well to audiovisual work, so I went into the shoot with this in mind (for the record, it’s kind of tricky to shoot, report, and gather audio all in one night. But it does get that journalistic adrenaline going…).

I’ve never done any multimedia work where I only had one take’s worth of material to work with—I always go back to reshoot or reinterview. If I were going back, I’d do certain things differently here, of course, but I am okay with how this turned out.

Let me know what you think!