Taking Off

I was called in early to the station today to report on the reopening of a renovated runway at the Moberly airport. I arrived at the station at about 12:15 and hit the road about 10 minutes later. I arrived at the airport and a caravan was heading out to the renovated runway. I followed them and then got footage of the ribbon cutting and some quick shots of the new surface of the runway. After the ribbon cutting, a man offered to take me up in his plane. I said I would go, but then declined to actually go up in the air and decided just to take a quick taxi around the airport. I got some shots while doing this, but I wasn't able to make any work in my story. I was able to humanize this story around the pilot and how he has been flying here for 20 years. He said he thinks the new runway will help Moberly attract more businesses. I also interviewed the public works director for the city. For some reason his audio was really bad. I think it may be because the mic was too low on his tie and it was very windy out on the tarmac. I will have to keep that in mind next time I am in that kind of a situation.

I got back to the station at about 5 p.m. and was editing by 6:15. The package came together pretty well with the exception of the audio on my interview with the public works director. I think I used nats sound well from the airport and had good referencing. I was also able to get some good pictures up on KOMU.com with my still photo camera that I used this time. I was happy with how much better they can look than some of the video stills.