Dice with death.
Sorry for the lack of updates recently; February sweeps is upon us, and I’ve been under the weather (but, of course, due to February sweeps, unable to take time off to recuperate before whatever I’m coming down with eats me alive) so I’ve been living on crunch time. The good news is that my first spot was handed in last night (well, okay, technically, the wee hours of this morning), containing more footage shot with my own camcorder than anything I’ve done to date (!). It’s a gambling addiction story, but as we just let one of our photogs go (right before sweeps!?), it’s become quite apparent that we’re not going to get any new footage of, oh, say, actual gambling shot for the story. Some file footage was requested from CNN and ABC, but there wasn’t enough of it, and we couldn’t show identifiable faces or placenames (i.e. the abundance of footage with the name of the casino in question on the back of a chair, etc.). My script referenced “the roll of the dice, the thrill of the win,” and then I realized…oh, wait, we’re not going to have footage of dice. So I set up my camcorder in my kitchen, and, up against the shiny black surface of the trash compactor, proceeded to build…The Contraption.… Read more
