Well, it's not perfect, but my first HFR (Hold For Release) story aired last night on KOMU. I worked for about a month on it, so to see it finally air felt fabulous. I did my story on bullying, an issue that is often hard to cover as a broadcast journalist because, unless you have a willing character to tell their story on camera, how do you visualize it? Well I lucked out because this story actually found me. I was at a gas station in the station vehicle and had gone inside to grab a soda. That's when Shamon found me and told me all about the problems her son was having in school with bullying and how the school wasn't doing anything about it. After meeting up with her again another time, I decided that this was a story I wanted to cover. She allowed me to interview her son and follow him around for a bit at his new school (that was an adventure...ever tried getting video at an elementary school? NOT.EASY). Anywho, I put a lot of thought into how I wrote the story and I edited it to make it the best that I could. Some problems that I ran into while working on the story were that the principal of the school the boy was bullied at didn't want to talk to me. I also only had a day to grab school video in a very constricted setting (indoor recess to be precise) so my shots aren't super diverse. AND, my interview shots are just ok, I wish I would've thought to not put them on a couch... live and learn.
Here's the story: "Bullying a Growing Concern in Elementary Schools"
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