to have insurance. This is one important thing, Peter,
that you left out.
I believe the mininum cost for coverage is $1000.
Anyone out there, please correct me if I'm wrong.
Solidarity.
> It's not money really. I was told that the NYC
> permits were free. I think they said you get
> one cop for free with the permit. They are concerned
> mostly with a big mass of cameras,
> lights, equipment etc. blocking sidewalks and
> access. That's why the permits started.
>
> We also filmed several segments on the sidewalks of
> NYC where you are also supposed to
> have permits. We had a camera and tripod (the tripod
> is potentialy bad, blocking sidewalks
> again). We spent the time to tell the locals what we
> were doing and even got some
> volunteer actors. I also was very concious of where
> I setup and I was quick to take the
> tripod down after each shot. We had no trouble.
>
> We even had a guy who became our unofficial guide.
> We wanted people of various ethnic
> backgrounds to say "Hi" to the everyman guy. This
> one shopkeeper took us around the
> neighborhood intorducing us to all the other
> shopkeepers. "You want Brazilians? I can talk
> to the girls in the hairdressing shop. You want
> Italian? There's a great place around the
> corner" and so on. I just wish we could have gotten
> that on film.
>
> We got turned down only once. There was one woman
> who was very pretty but did not
> want to be filmed. Eventually she told us she was in
> the US without papers, so we just
> moved on.
> >
> > Pete
> >
> > --
> > http://tinkernet.org/
> > videoblog for the future...
>
>
>
>
"work with what you got"
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