Kaleidoscope Festival Coverage

The 2007 Kaleidoscope Festival at Cal State Long Beach was my first, being that I just transferred here this year.

I gotta say, covering that event was probably the best, and funnest idea me and Daniela had regarding our "Day in the Life" project. Everyone there was extremely kind and just happy to be there, making it easy to approach them and snap shots and ask questions. Although we didn't have any trouble with our story, we came across several "talkers" who wouldn't let us get away once they found out we were writing a story for the CSULB Journalism Department.

The huge crowds were sort of an obstacle as far as getting good shots - there was fear of getting a portion of a head, arm, leg, what have you in all of the shots we took - that's how crowded the campus was on Saturday. However, we quickly learned the importance of the crop function in iPhoto making the project go by a bit faster.

The hardest part of putting together the slideshow wasn't the narration or the sequencing - the most time consuming part of the project was decided which pictures to keep. We started with a bit under 300 photos and had to cut it down to around 45. That took us about 1.5 hours, while the rest whizzed on by.