union square
went to the rail comp in NYC last night. it was prettty much the same as last year. a little better setup. i planned my angle a little further in advance. but there were still 50 people there shooting this thing, so not really like your going to get to unique of an angle or edit.
rode the train into the city. lucky for me it was student-ride-free week. that was nice that lined up with the date of the competition.
thought for a half a second about trying to get somewhere in through this crowd to get an angle.
but that’s about as long as that idea lasted…
went to the 4th floor of barnes and noble across the street.. attempted to tripod it and got told to move within 10 min. yet there was a guy 5 feet to my left who was allowed to stay. i found the manager and asked a couple questions and it was obvious that one of the big sponsors was paying them to only let 1 filmer up there. lame.
i then went down a floor to the starbucks section and filmed from that window. no one bothered me the whole night.
overall pretty good night. the best part was probably not knowing the train schedule home and running into the station as my train read ‘all aboard’ on the tv. i thought it’d still be worth a shot to get to. jumped on and it pulled away a minute later. it wouldn’t have been cool to sit there for another hour for the next one.
went to creek tonight to try and film this comp. This setup was almost really cool- but it was bitter cold and the light was just plain horrible. I gotta throw a bunch of filters on the footage and maybe I can up something out.. Otherwise not looking so good!
