our experience) to work with, you fill in the forms (download, filling
in takes 5 minutes), send someone up there with forms and they review
them (can take from an hour to three), they may ask a few questions (of
the person delivering the forms or they telephone you) as the forms
seem never quite clear enough, and they issue a permit for specific
locations for a specific term. No fees, but you must have the proper
insurance in place since you are making a rep when you fill in the
forms. Further, if you want to film in a park, after you receive your
permit you must contact the the parks department person responsible for
that park (it appears each has a few parks, is regional). It's not a
big deal, get the permit. And people here are very friendly here and
we've found it easy to chat with folks on camera. One more thought,
when filming peeps the usual release concerns apply, and regarding
audio you might want to avoid issues if a nearby boombox is pumping out
copyrighted tunes.
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On Aug 11, 2005, at 6:29 PM, Jack Nelson wrote:
> --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Pete Prodoehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>> Frank Carver wrote:
>>> Thursday, August 11, 2005, 7:55:12 PM, Pete Prodoehl wrote:
>>>
>>>> Permit for what? Do you need a permit to shoot video on the subway
>>>> or
>>>> other locations? (I'm asking because I really don't know. Are the
>>>> videographers rights the same as the well known photographers
>>>> rights?)
>>>
>>>
>>> What you need to remember is that traditionally TV and moviemaking
>>> has
>>> meant big budgets. Many big cities in the USA (where lots of such
>>> things
>>> are shot), long ago decided to cash in on these lucrative activities.
>>>
>>> In such places (which (AFAIK) include LA, NY, and Chicago, for
>>> example)
>>> you need to pay up front for a permit to shoot, and will be nabbed if
>>> spotted doing something that looks like pro filmmaking without a
>>> permit.
>>>
>>> In these cases, looking like a dumb tourist is actually an advantage
>>> :)
>>
>> Hmmm, "what I need to remember" sounds just all wrong... I was never
>> involved in traditional tv or moviemaking, so I would have no idea I'd
>> need a permit to walk around a major city with a video camera.
>>
>> See? It always comes back around to money. The cities wanted to make
>> money off of big media, and we have to suffer because of it. Sigh...
>
> 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
>>
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