If you’re working at a newspaper around the Thanksgiving holidays then it’s a guarantee that at some point you’ll be sent out to cover Black Friday, (edit: oh wait, Will already said that, damn you Will!) the annual post T-day holiday marked by long lines, shivering toes and AP video of grandmas being trampled in [...]
If you’re working at a newspaper around the Thanksgiving holidays then it’s a guarantee that at some point you’ll be sent out to cover Black Friday, (edit: oh wait, Will already said that, damn you Will!) the annual post T-day holiday marked by long lines, shivering toes and AP video of grandmas being trampled in the aisles of some big box store as they mad dash for that last bagel sized wide slot toaster with the chrome accents that they’ll later take home and eventually gift away when they can’t figure out why they even bought it in the first place… I mean, I love commercialism.
Evelio Contreras of The Roanoke Times created a piece on a group of high school kids waiting in line at a Best Buy (They say there’s nothing better to do in Roanoke, makes sense to me!) that’s entertaining and shows that there are stories to be found everywhere. It’s the best Black Friday multimedia I’ve this year, perhaps ever. (Edit: Sorry Dai, I disqualified you since we’re friends… and Will beat me to it, yeah that’s the ticket.)
Steven Hutto, Andrew Tuck and Daniel Sarver, all students who know each other from Hidden Valley High School, played badminton, flew kites and sang songs to pass the time in order to be among the first in line when Best Buy opened early on Friday, Nov. 23.
I just have one question, what were they waiting for and did they get it? Other than that, awesome.
Oh and be sure to keep at look out for your next American Idols at the 6 p.m. mark.
-Shaminder “Happy Thanksgiving” Dulai
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thanks for plugging Evelio’s work. he really flew this one out of the parking lot (pun intended)
The best part about Evelio is this:
Evelio was a reporter up until about May or so — during the April 16 VT shootings I needed some help shooting video on the VT campus — with over 1 hundred media outlets in town with multiple person teams — i needed some assistance — Evelio was a big help to me he would help gather interviewees and just help me bring my stories together.
Eventually Evelio got the video buzz and applied for an open multimedia producer slot
now Evelio has come over to the dark side — and works for the online team and is really doing a great job — and is essentially hooked on telling stories in video.
check out an interview with Evelio on the ASNE web site :
http://tae.asne.org/Default.aspx?grm2id=134&tabid=74
Seth Gitner
Multimedia Editor
The Roanoke Times and roanoke.com