You ain't seen nothing, yet... a chainsaw-wielding happy face will be through any moment to reduce that to $3.88.super8man wrote:Excuse me while I run over to walmart...I see the Annie DVD is only $9.44!!!
Lesson learned about walmart
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I just found this funny and deemed it not worthy as a new totally separate thread as my current project that just wrapped was shot on DV. This is my project for the competition posted here before: Anyways, it was a little before 12am for a night shoot in the rain since 8:30pm in my backyard, framed such a way it appears to be a field. http://www.ifckc.com/index.php?option=c ... 9&Itemid=2
So once things started, production just took off and we made good on our time. So it's a quarter till 12, we're done just shooting some more cutaways when a police cruiser drives down the street, sorta does a double take, then whips back around and stops. Then another cruiser comes by and my AD went over to talk with them, I stayed back by the camera trying to calm people down...I mean keep the camera rolling to get some footage. It didn't pick up but the first cop was laughing and the second one yelled "Oh wow you're shooting a movie thats so cool!"
It turns out it really wasn't the sound or our lights, someone actually thought a fight or a mob hit was happening in their neighborhood. Shouldn't rule them out as stupid because the shoot is in Lawrence MA known for such things. But why would they choose to do it with 3 incredibly bright lights shining on them, someone on a ladder with a hose and another person behind the camera holding an umbrella?
Just had to gloat about this. Please understand.
So once things started, production just took off and we made good on our time. So it's a quarter till 12, we're done just shooting some more cutaways when a police cruiser drives down the street, sorta does a double take, then whips back around and stops. Then another cruiser comes by and my AD went over to talk with them, I stayed back by the camera trying to calm people down...I mean keep the camera rolling to get some footage. It didn't pick up but the first cop was laughing and the second one yelled "Oh wow you're shooting a movie thats so cool!"
It turns out it really wasn't the sound or our lights, someone actually thought a fight or a mob hit was happening in their neighborhood. Shouldn't rule them out as stupid because the shoot is in Lawrence MA known for such things. But why would they choose to do it with 3 incredibly bright lights shining on them, someone on a ladder with a hose and another person behind the camera holding an umbrella?
Just had to gloat about this. Please understand.
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Well, here in (old) York, it is Ok to take pictures/video etc. at the station, unless you're using a tripod - in which case you need to get a licence... strange.chachi wrote:As a photographer I've personally had similar run ins with companies when trying to take photographs at Grand Central Station with my tripod in New York, Starbucks and PF Changs.
john..
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A couple of years ago I took my camcorder into Asda (British supermarket owned by Wal-Mart). My wife and I wanted to send a nice tape over to our neices in the states showing what life in England is like. They'd been through a really rough time and had just come out of care into their grandmother's home so we wanted to do something nice for them.
After a few minutes of just taping ourselves I was accosted by a security guy and asked if I was "filming". I said yes, tried to explain but I was basically given no option...I had to put the camera back in the car and stop. His idea, and it is valid, was that I might accidentally capture other shoppers who did not wish to be filmed (mind you the CCTV will get them anyway...). Apparently he'd had a complaint about me.
A shame, I've actually shot some super 8 in a hypermarket in Spain without any problems...and at the Pike St. public market in Seattle on two occasions.
The fact is that in the case of Asda and the hypermarket I had no automatic right to film or tape as they're not public land. Just a shame that the security people wouldn't listen.
BTW he didn't take my tape, indeed in the UK that would be classed as theft. It's still my damned tape. I was just asked to stop taping and put the camera back in the car.
After a few minutes of just taping ourselves I was accosted by a security guy and asked if I was "filming". I said yes, tried to explain but I was basically given no option...I had to put the camera back in the car and stop. His idea, and it is valid, was that I might accidentally capture other shoppers who did not wish to be filmed (mind you the CCTV will get them anyway...). Apparently he'd had a complaint about me.
A shame, I've actually shot some super 8 in a hypermarket in Spain without any problems...and at the Pike St. public market in Seattle on two occasions.
The fact is that in the case of Asda and the hypermarket I had no automatic right to film or tape as they're not public land. Just a shame that the security people wouldn't listen.
BTW he didn't take my tape, indeed in the UK that would be classed as theft. It's still my damned tape. I was just asked to stop taping and put the camera back in the car.
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Re: Lesson learned about walmart
Maybe you shouldn't film a faked shop-robbery without a prior permission?! ;)Thomas JI wrote:NEVER shoot anything with a video camera/film camera inside their store. They will come after you with an angry fist and take your film/tape away!
Took my flippin tape!
I shot with an Arri BL on a tripod in Grand central station. We had permission from the station security and had to also go to the Film liason office in NYC to let them know what we were up to and all.namke wrote:Well, here in (old) York, it is Ok to take pictures/video etc. at the station, unless you're using a tripod - in which case you need to get a licence... strange.chachi wrote:As a photographer I've personally had similar run ins with companies when trying to take photographs at Grand Central Station with my tripod in New York, Starbucks and PF Changs.
john..
I can certainly understand them not wanting people who have no business being there just getting in the way and being an insurance risk. Ofcoarse we did to alot of under the rader stuff in NYC that there is no way anyone would have approved us doing...
Ya I realized too might have been a slight oversight in our cases, two people were shot a week or so ago by a man suffereing from PTS from duty in Iraq and just read a 16 year old boy was also shot and killed last night. I just hope police weren't distracted with our little production while all this was going on.