Now here's a guy that you call "a gold mine" when you go out to cover a story by yourself.
Here's the background:
For class, I was told I needed to go out and cover something about Election Day on Election Day. It could have been anything (of course with the approval of my professor). So , I decided to do something on early voters for the election. Were people jumping hurdles, or in this case jumping out of bed early, to make sure their vote was counted.
Turns out the polls opened at 6:00AM election day, which made for a very early morning and a VERY LONG DAY.
When I got to one of the polling locations (in the pitch black of the early morning), I noticed a lonely red van sitting in the parking lot with a man sitting in it. The light from inside the cabin of his van drew me to him like a mosquito who can't resist the florescent glow from the bug light zapper.
When I approached him and started talking to him, I knew I had hit a gold mine. Turned out he jokingly referred to himself as "Joe the Mason."
Reporting Approach:
I tried something different with this piece. I only had five minutes of video to work with (three minutes of which was the interview). I timed my voice tracks out just right so that I could slip them into a 0:30 second continuous clip of uncut video.
I did this so that I could get the natural sound of the van door closing and him taking a drag of his cigarette. Made for easy video editing, but really hard writing.
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