Friday, November 6, 2009

"First Avenue..." Shoot

The shoot went fairly well today, I'll know better once I have the footage imported.
We went to Stuyvesant Town, which I tend to call "the mystical place", to shoot. It's a residential community in Manhattan, right off of 14th st near 1st ave, and down along that area. It's huge, with winding pathways and parks and big apartment complexes, it even has its own stores, it looks nothing like the rest of Manhattan. Apparently, there are cameras all over there, which is really strange. We were shooting near a fountain, just having gotten our first shot, when two patrol guys in a vehicle approached us on the path and asked what we were doing. I told them I was a student and begged them to let me continue shooting. They said I needed a permit to be shooting and that I would have to go somewhere else. I begged some more and they said that they were going to drive around and when they got back, that's when I had to be finished shooting. So, I rushed the rest of the shoot.
Basically, it all happened in a whirlwind and I really don't know how well any of it came out. We did, however, finish shooting in time. The patrol guys came back around just as we completed packing up our gear.

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