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By Dana Sorenson “I thought it was a good idea; motion and
Walking into the dimly lit theater there audio together would make it more interes­
were many confused faces, mostly from the ting,” replied Watson.
freshman class which had never experienced After the film was shot, the video required
this once a year event before. What was this nine and a half hours of film and music edit­
occasion? The Ralston High School one-day ing, all done on a single Saturday during
yearbook sale. Christmas vacation. The yearbook staff had
After everyone was seated, the 24 minute 250 minutes of film to view and select what
video began. It was the first time for Ralston they wanted to use and in what order they
or any other Metro-area school to produce a wanted to use it.
video for its yearbook promotion. The music for the video was decided upon
The film for the video was shot by KMTV by the yearbook staff with the final decision
3 Cameraman Rich Watson. Nancy Rice, going to Senior Cami Rawlings. Using songs
yearbook adviser, found out about Watson from Rawlings’ albums, Watson taped them
through Coach John Blazek with whom Wat­ in their complete form then edited the parts
son had worked before. Rice contacted Wat­ that weren’t needed. There were ap­
son in September with her idea of the video. proximately fifteen songs on the video.
“The one day yearbook sale itself is still in “I liked the video a lot better than the slide
the experimental stage, so why not experi­ show. It’s more realistic. It’s as if you were
ment some more with a video? I believe in there yourself watching it happen,” said
taking risks,” stated Rice. Rawlings.

The Yearbook Staff after the one-day yearbook
sale. Front Row: Kelly Hanna, Ram mascot,
Pam Fleming Second Row: Cami Rawlings,
Gayle Pankratz, Dana Sorenson, Shannon
Baker, Dawn Mitchell, Brian Gibbs, Bridgette
Meissner, Stacey Clark, Shellie Conley, Christy
McMurray
62 Journal‘Sm Individual work Is a large part of Nancy Rice’s
Journalism I class, especially when they’re
working on the annual Spectrum magazine.