Blogger Notes

For the multimedia, I want to concentrate on the personal stories throughout Colorado in the different areas that could affect the votes. I want to include the following areas if I have the time to get all of them done:

Industries (ideally mining and farming)
The Hispanic community
Rural areas
The Denver/Boulder metro area

I think these will give balance to both sides. I'm going to try to find contacts who will let me follow them around for a couple days at time. I'll get interview audio or video while they talk about their political views and why they have them and make flash audio/video slideshows which I will probably try to divide up for each individual story. We could also mix in audio or video of the interviews of the official people, so let me know if you need a good recorder and you can borrow mine. Even if you have a cheap recorder, if you don't have a good mic the audio probably won't be good enough to use so let me know and you can use mine. Also, if any of you want to shoot photos or video that's fine by me and we can share the multimedia.

A site I found that is going to be helpful for all of us is http://projects.rockymountainnews.com/apps/news/politics/elections/colorado-county-profiles/ which has the demographics, including industry, and past presidential election results of each county. Pueblo County, with a large Hispanic population, has voted blue pretty consistently. Gunnison and Garfield Counties with mining as one of their larger industries have voted mostly red in the past 50 years.

If you guys find any good contacts that you think I should have in the multimedia, let me know please! Otherwise, I will find them on my own and give you guys their number if you want to use them in the articles.

Let me know if you guys want me to change anything about what I have planned so far. Hopefully, I'll start shooting within the next two weeks.

Mara