So Shawn and myself were supposed to shoot a news story yesterday. I was weary about doing it since Shawn hadn't done his last 2 stories. He was the reporter on the story and thus it was his job to come up with the idea and set something up. We decided to do a story on the indoor golf place at the Town Centre and I emplored Shawn for 4 days to call the guy and set something up but of course he didn't until Monday afternoon. So we found out the place is already closed, which was just the first kick in the nads that happened. I had read a story about Manitoba debating whether or not to ban cell phone use while driving so I put forth that idea. Another idea was a story on violence in tv and videogames but we decided to go with the cell phone story.
It started out alright, getting a shot of a cell phone ringing and Shawn answering it while we were driving around Brandon in his Nitro. I had to do the shot handheld of course, so it was not steady at all and pretty much sucked. We continued on shooting any b-roll we could think of, which ended up being not very much. Shawn playing with his GPS navigator while driving, shot of the outside of a cell phone place, shots of the cop shop, low angle shot on victoria of cars driving by.
Things basically went to shit when we attempted to get some interviews. We went to the police station and asked if someone could give us a comment but apparently the guy who handles questions from the media only works till 4 and it was after 4 by this point. So yes it was pretty stupid. We went to the small police station by Shilo, but no luck once again. We were told they can't comment on anything until it actually becomes a law. Street interviews worked no better. We could not get an interview to save our lives. Friends of Shawn wouldn't help out. One guy outside Shawn's apartment building gave us a b.s. excuse that he wasn't from Brandon so we would be better off getting someone else. That was at least polite, unlike some people. We were running out of ideas so we went to the mall. We got the attention of a middle aged woman in the parking lot and she basically freaked out. She looked like a spooked yak. She yelled at us, "What!, What do you want? I'm busy." Shawn managed to get out 3 words before she shot us an evil and abrupt "No!" I just thought, that was remarkably rude. It was 6 pm by now. We had been driving around entire the city for 3 hours trying to do this and then decided to try at ACC not expecting to actually get anything.
We ended up dejectedly sitting in Shawn's nitro in the parking lot trying to think of what the hell to do with this news story. We finally decided to give up, and see what happens with the media mistresses of the news story, Greg and Diane, the next day. Some how I don't think their gonna be happy.
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