Taking A Gamble On Drugs
From a journalistic standpoint, this was my favorite story of the November sweeps period, basically examining police claims that a large, recently-opened casino just across the Arkansas/Oklahoma border had already become a hotspot of illegal drug activity. We had arrests and police checkpoint searches on tape, which meant plenty of blurring, but we also had some stuff that I would describe as “money shots” - such as the cop searching under a car seat and coming up with a handful of pot. I used some fruit machine video as a background element which, with the benefit of hindsight, I don’t think I’d do again - when it’s moving, it’s almost distracting from the main video, which shouldn’t happen.
