Radio Scripts starting to gel together

This past week our class had its baked goods and t-shirt sale under the breezeway next to the commons.  After seeing how unsuccessfully our first attempt to connect to the students in the arts and crafts sale, this time, we were a little better prepared.  First of all, we had much more people helping out and stopping by so we could physically interact with more people.  Our location was also much better as the traffic in the breezeway, and our positioning under the breezeway saw much more action then on Main Street in the commons.  Our set-up was also more professional looking.  We actually had promotional material out that we could give to people that weren't interested in buying anything, but wanted to know more about the actual project.  The t-shirts seem to be too expensive for the passing student, the baked goods sold in spurts, but Cody selflessly getting pied in the face repeatedly, clearly was the big hit and rose lots of money.  All in all our second go around on campus was much more successful and we were able to raise over $150.

On the other front, our radio series is taking off and the script writing is the next step.  In our meeting with Marc on Friday, we really hammered out another edit, or at least the plans for another edit, so that our scripts can start to gel and create a tension filled, interesting, coherent narrative.  My group is right on track with where we need to be.  Jonnie, Sharda, and I will be meeting on two occasions this week both during AMST 422 class time to exchange more edits and try to piece together a great story.   Our next step should be actually finding all the audio clips and beginning to put them together so we can hear where ambient sounds should be placed in, or where a change needs to be made in the script.

Lastly, the Garden Gala itself.  Since I have been so focused on the radio series, I havent been as involved in the event planning for the past week or two.  That being said, our music lineup is starting to take shape as we currently have 4 acts, and another pending.  Bobby E. Lee and the Sympathizers, Haint Blue, Jason Reed and Jennie Williams have all decided to join us for a great show and we are also currently trying to have some students from the local high school MC the event and even do some performing of their own if they feel comfortable.  We are also still in the process of finding donations for the event.  We have received positive feedback from local businesses in Fells Point, and we have currently received almost 10 donations.  Cody and I are planning on going back down to follow up with some of the businesses this coming Thursday.