Tomas caused a delay

ITINARARY FOR TOBAGO TRIP        SAVING POWER X 4

From 29th October - 31st October 2010

Date	Time	Function	No.	Location
29th Oct.	PM 9:45 10:05 10:30 11:00	Depart Piarco Arrive in TAB Have light dinner Sleep	1 2 3 4	Piarco Int'l Airport Crown Point Int'l Airport Judy's Home away from Home Judy's Home away from Home

 

Date	Time	Function	No.	Location
30th Oct.	AM 6:30 7:00 7:10 7:50 8:50 11:10 12:10	Breakfast Head to Fort Milford Arrive at Fort Milford Head to Store Bay Head to Pigeon Point Head to Hermitage Hermitage (Close Documentary)	1 2 3 4 5 6 7	Judy's Home away from Home Fort Milford (Intro)    --0-- Store Bay Pigeon Point Hermitage Bay    --0--
30th Oct.	PM 2:10 3:10 7:00	Depart Hermitage Arrive at base & rest * Unwind / Leisure Activities	9 10 11	Hermitage Bay Judy's Home away from Home Anywhere the wind takes us

 

Date	Time	Function	No.	Location
31st Oct	7:00   12:05 1:05 1:25	Some beach   Check-in Depart TAB Arrive in POS	1   2 3 4	- - Anywhere  - -   Crown Point Int'l Airport Crown Point Int'l Airport Piarco Int'l Airport

*  Please walk with appropriate clothing for *unwinding.  Of course, this depends on the success of the morning shoots

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 Well above was the detailed itinerary for one of our final shoots, to be done in Tobago!! Tickets purchased it was just to board the 9:45 pm flight. However due to the "Tropical Storm Warning" placed on the country, we decided as a group to forgo that trip, until another time. 

This decision was a safe call, but at the same time...it is sort of pushing us back a bit with our production.

The Production assistant tried her best to get us on the next weekend flight(which is this weekend -the long weekend) but that proved unsuccessful. Not a surprise really as of course there are tons of people heading over for the long weekend. It does seem however that our trip to the sister isle would be next weekend.

So as I suggested to the group it was best we get what we can now now with the free time, hopefully my group agrees. This suggestion was made so we could just to shoot what we can right here with a wasted weekend..so the Introduction for the documentary is still to be done...this weekend is a fabulous opportunity to do that! One area for shooting the Intro would be at the Hyatt water front. I also mentioned in chatting with Trixie(the producer) the lookout in Morvant, which gives a spectacular view of the city and surrounding in Port Of Spain or even Lady Chancellor which also offers a similar viewing. Also we should be doing alot of the cutaways as well at various points of Trinidad on Saturday! Trixie will however mention to the Director the most recent thoughts. 

Also I will head across to Trixie's on Friday(the Divali Holiday) to begin bringing our heads together for the  construction of the narration. I have already been viewing a few documentaries to get a feel of not only the sound of the narrator but what sort of limit was placed on the information provided...as we need to remember it is a 10-15 minute documentary! I am 95% complete with the questionnaires...as I am converting the information to graphs and pie charts etc. That information is needed to contribute towards the narrations. I have not received all the questionnaires distributed but that obviously was expected. 

Another challenge we have encounter is the unavailability at the minute, of the representative Michelle Low Chew Tung from TDC (The Tourism Development Company). Trixie mentioned if indeed the availability issue continues then we will have to resort to a telephone interview with her and simply using the audio. I am hoping if we are left to that last resort I can organize to do it at ebony where we do have the facilities to do that. 

So at this point paranoia hasn't fully stepped in but there is hope. Well I too the unplanned free time to search for some literature that would assist me in my role as Sound Engineeer! 

READING:

I located this book on Google books called The documentary film makers handbook By Genevieve Jolliffe, Andrew Zinnes. This book offers vital information in the execution of my role. It is certainly a book I will share with my group mates to assist us all in pulling off this great documentary. 

The books offers advice from the importance of silence sometimes over any audio or bed at all. it states "Appreciate the power of silence. Sometimes the best tension is created when nothing is being heard"  Jolliffe and Zinnes (2006). The book also makes mention of use of sound effects to assist the delivery of the footage, as well as to be wary of one's selection of beds. As with that choice you don't want draw the attention away from the viewing of the documentary.