There’s one part of the documentary where the reporter travels to Toronto to do interviews (see last blog entry). Well, to introduce Toronto as a city, I decided to do a 10 second montage to the sound of 50s rocks. Overeall, I have about an hour’s worth of city sights and busy intersections.
All of the shots were taken from public locations, with the exception of two places: the CN Tower (took shots of Toronto skyline), and the TTC (shots of a subway car arriving). When I was at the CN Tower, I filled out some forms that let me take footage under the condition that the company that operates the tower was named in the credits.
Well, I just got an email today from the CN Tower’s company. Upon review, they do not want to let me use what would end up being 3 seconds worth of skyline footage. It would seem that they would refuse all shots that do not explicitly promote the CN Tower as a tourist spot.
I’m dissapointed at this turn of events. It’s no big hurdle really – again I have tons of other footage of the city; but it would have been nice to have had that high-altitude perspective. However, I fail to see their logic in refusing for me to use footage of the city I shot from their premises. Common sense these days. Well, it’ll give me more stuff to talk about in the director’s commentary 😀