I finally finished my soundslide 2- Artists’ Community at Farmers’ Market, which covers a place called Farmers’ Market located in Downtown Community Plaza. I re-edited my audio for three times, every time from a different angle. I just keep asking myself, what is the story I want to tell and what is the story others may interested in.

To me, interviewing Farmers’ market, the experience itself raised so many different angle for me. This farmers’ market is really different from what I thought before I went there. In China, farmers’ market should be crowd, dirty, smelly and noisy, but here, things seems opposite.  In China, we will never have artists in a farmers’ market. People go to farmers’ market not to enjoy themselves, but to buy food and rushly go back home to cook the dinner. There will be no band playing music, no kids playing, running there. So all the differences give me so many cut-in points which makes my confused. And when I interviewed a vendor there, I found that she has gotten a master’s degree in Linguistics in UF and now stay at home, and she seems really satisfied with her life. This makes me get interest in her.

So at first, I made an audio based on this vendor, to see how she feels about being a vandor and bringing her kids here, later, I made another audio based on why she comes to Farmers’ Market. However, both of them are not interesting. When I talked with Mindy about my confusion, she told me that I should never take these people as celebrities, because my background of being an entertaiment reporter, every little thing about stars can be interested by lot of people. But in fact, no people will really care about the vendor’s daily life. So I ask myself, what kind of story can be interested in this market.  Then I come up the idea, what about talking the artists’ community there? As the market’s name shows, we think that the vendors in this market should mostly be farmers, but the truth is more and more artists now join this market. So how is the market like after they join in? I really hope this will be a better angle.