Mike and Jon and I met up at 10pm downtown and got set up to do some shots on Broad Street. Unfortunately, the tower of City Hall wasn't lit up - ???
So we decided to do our driving shots first in hopes that the lights would come on eventually.
It was fun driving around town with this huge camera attached to my car - everyone who drove by us was looking to see if there was anyone famous being filmed... :)
By the time we got back to City Hall...nothing had changed. So we filmed anyway! I was standing on the median on south Broad singing the song while being filmed and while cars drove past yelling out the windows...we gathered that the Eagles had not won the game that night (we missed the end to go set up) because they weren't yells of joy...just kind of angry...good thing we dub in music for this kind of filming!
The shot looked great, regardless of the missing tower on City Hall - all the lights of the Avenue of the Arts...my favorite street in town!
After this we headed into Olde City to get shots of me walking past bars (on my way to and from an "out of town" gig). We started filming just around 2am when the bars let out so we attempted to use this to our advantage - but when people weren't looking directly at the camera smiling or shouting across the street "HEY!! ARE YOU MAKING A MOVIE?!?!" they were failing to notice the girl with the guitar who was trying to smoothly walk past the crowd - it was kind of like a jungle. I don't know which of that footage will be used, but probably not the part where I almost fall into the row of trash bags....
We wrapped up shooting at 3am and headed to South Street for a slice of the amazing Lorenzo's Pizza!
All in all a great night - now on to editing!!
That's right, filming is finished...now because of some scheduling conflicts the chances of getting the editing done before the holidays is minimal - but you'll be the first to know :)
