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Sep. 8th, 2003 09:47 pmCraptastic day today. Spent all day running in circles. Basically, my first assignement for Broadcast Science, was to shoot a music video. So my group and I picked out a piece of music, kind of a Pulp Fiction feel to it and figured we'd go around Boston taking shots of traffic for time lapse, shots in the T stations, shots of the trains etc. Let's see if we can count how many things went wrong?
1. Couldn't get balcony access in Kenmore Cooperative Tower to get a shot of Kenmore square...the concierge was not cooperative.
2. Got kicked out of the T station as were told we would need a permit to film.
3. Found out getting a permit is a week or more process, costs beacoup bucks and got treated like shit by the guys informing us of these facts.
4. Had to go through three security check points in order to talk to the guy that would let us set up the tripod on the sidewalk in front of a federal building. Not to film the building, mind you, just to have the tripod on their property.
5. Went to Faneuil Hall (huge touristy area) to get the crowds... there were no crowds, the place was dead.
6. Switch got broken on the trains, got stuck between stations.
7. Train actually broke down as we were coming up from below ground. Was stalled, with brief periods of rolling backwards, for 30 minutes. This was during ruch hour, so the train was packed and the AC was out.
All in all it feels like we spent about 30 minutes to an hour hoofing it around the city for every 30 seconds of footage we have. And, as the hour of fottage that we took is for a 3-4 minute piece, it probably equals that for usable footage. And just think, this is just wekk #1.
1. Couldn't get balcony access in Kenmore Cooperative Tower to get a shot of Kenmore square...the concierge was not cooperative.
2. Got kicked out of the T station as were told we would need a permit to film.
3. Found out getting a permit is a week or more process, costs beacoup bucks and got treated like shit by the guys informing us of these facts.
4. Had to go through three security check points in order to talk to the guy that would let us set up the tripod on the sidewalk in front of a federal building. Not to film the building, mind you, just to have the tripod on their property.
5. Went to Faneuil Hall (huge touristy area) to get the crowds... there were no crowds, the place was dead.
6. Switch got broken on the trains, got stuck between stations.
7. Train actually broke down as we were coming up from below ground. Was stalled, with brief periods of rolling backwards, for 30 minutes. This was during ruch hour, so the train was packed and the AC was out.
All in all it feels like we spent about 30 minutes to an hour hoofing it around the city for every 30 seconds of footage we have. And, as the hour of fottage that we took is for a 3-4 minute piece, it probably equals that for usable footage. And just think, this is just wekk #1.