Post for Week 7

This week I started my Missourian shift and covered another really interesting event. The event was Artrageous Friday, which occurs on the fourth Friday of each quarter and involved Rock Bridge high school students creating very impressive, unique paintings and other pieces. Courtney wanted me to try and get there pretty early to get interviews, around 5:00, but they told me not to come back until 6:00, so I passed time and ate some Chipotle then came back and everyone was more than willing to talk while they were working.
It was an intriguing form of art that I had never witnessed before. Students would be working on a painting, then their teacher, Sharyn Hyatt-Wade, would blow a whistle and everyone would switch and work on a different painting. It was like a Chinese fire drill, but with art.
Things really picked up when a group of drummers from Rock Bridge came by and began playing music for the event. There had to be at least 50 spectators on the street watching the beautiful mayhem. More and more drummers kept showing up and eventually dancers showed up, but it was not till really late so there wasn't enough light to get pictures of them.
I came back and loaded my audio and photos at the Missourian, but my editor Jenn Elston had to leave for a group meeting. I came back this afternoon and we met up and finished my slide show and I think it turned out pretty well. Good nat sound and clear interviews.
One of the coolest events I've covered as a student journalist, though.
Also, Soundslides was not on the computer I was working on at the Missourian, so I had to download the demo, so at the start of my piece it says "Made with Soundslides Demo." Hope that's not a big problem...

http://www.columbiamissourian.com/multimedia/slideshow/2009/10/10/rock-bridge-students-display-unique-art-artrageous/