The Retail Industry

On Wednesday night, I pursued a story on retail jobs in Columbia. There had been a report that retail jobs were up 40 percent in Columbia from 2002 to 2006. I tracked down the MU professor who was part of the report and was able to get a great interview with him in his office. I then headed downtown in search of a local business that could provide some further "today" context on the story. I wanted to see if a business could support these findings from the professor and how its hiring was going now. I wanted to see if retail hiring saw an increase or a decrease from 2006 to 2009. I tried many stores and none were able to give me enough information or were not willing to go on camera. Finally, at Cool Stuff, owner Arnie Fagan agreed to speak with me. He said he is actually hiring more this year compared to years in the stretch between 2002 and 2006. This was a good contrast and added context to what the professor said.

I got back to edit in plenty of time, at 8:15, but there was a problem importing my clips into Avid. I accidentally closed the video converter when I was importing clips from one memory card into Avid. This is because I was trying to convert my clips from the other memory card while importing the clips I all ready converted. I know now that this is not possible. This mistake cost me a lot of time as I had to reconvert everything from the first card, which had most of my video. I was able to get a package on the air, even though it wasn't edited very well and the shots were not that interesting. I had better plans for the package, including adding nats sound of the cash register, but the converting problem really set me back. I also probably should have lit my standup a little differently. I also know to shoot less video overall because it is hard to convert just what you want out of a lot of video. I learned a lot once again from this shift and I now have many things to keep in mind for the future.