This weekend is The Fest, an annual punk rock show that brings in fans from all over the country. The Independent Florida Alligator has never really covered this event and the majority of students living in Gainesville don’t know it exists.
So my staff and I decided to remedy that. We set up a page just for The Fest. Put up a map and schedules, created a Twitter account and asked people to tag photos so we could display them. Then we took a walk with the video camera.
Yesterday was the first day, and in the early afternoon we set out to get some video at the Fest Flea Market. Anthem tattoos was set up in the back of a conference room, so we approached them to ask if we could tape the process.
Me: “Hi, my name is Megan, I’m from The Independent Florida Alligator. We were wondering if we could get some shots. (holding up the camera)”
In-charge-looking guy: “Sure, come around through here.”
Bystander: “But The Alligator is a newspaper!
Me: (sort of shocked and weakly): “We have a Web site…” (then joking) “We’re gonna print the video.”
WHAT JUST HAPPENED?!