By Katie Heelon
Throughout the reporting for this projects there were both highs and lows. There were many setbacks that came about, which made it important to think fast, and decide what you would do in order to fill a spot instead.
I interviewed two people within the Hempstead community, one who was living there presently and one who had moved away. The one, Lesley, was fine with being videotaped, however Matt was a little more apprehensive about being interviewed on camera, so he instead decided on allowing me to interview him, and then agreed to send a picture via email for me to use. (Since I only had a flip camera on me, and not my digital camera, which could have led to problems if he wasn’t so helpful.)
I also interviewed Mayor Hall, and although he didn’t have a good time to meet in his office, we talked for about fifteen minutes over the phone, and he directed me to the website , for a picture of him. Mayor Hall was extremely helpful, and the phone call also cut back some of the anxiety I have for calling people for interviews over the phone, it was a really great experience. For other parts of footage I both photographed and videotaped within the Village of Hempstead. I visited www.villageofhempstead.org, to obtain information about the village itself, along with Factfinder.com to obtain population statistics.
Most of my article however, was based on my three interviews. One of the forums I used was this one, on Topix.com. I also asked random people on the street, who I allowed to remain anonymous for the section about giving me one word to describe the Village of Hempstead, I thought that was a good way to show the overall feeling towards the village.
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