I cut together a little highlight reel of what we saw yesterday at the inaugural concert! Like I said in the previous blog post, it was an amazing scene, though we were fairly far back, it was great to share the experience with so many other people. We’ll be going in the city today to shoot some b-roll, tomorrow is going to be an amazing day, we can’t wait.
The crowd started from the Lincoln memorial, and continued past the Washington Monument. Following President-Elect Obama’s speech, Bruce Springsteen took the stage with Pete Seeger and sang “This Land is Your Land.” It was moving to hear the crowd join the chorus. I’m glad we came early to witness this, it got me even more excited for Tuesday.
I captured much from my P.O.V, I’ll be posting that tomorrow morning. For now, here’s some pictures to check out.
Hagerstown was an interesting place, the people we talked to had a lot to say about how much has changed for the different social classes in this country. Hagerstown was a place where you could definitely see how things have hurt small business and the working class.
Gettysburg is a beautiful city that has done an excellent job of preserving its past. We spoke to a few individuals we ran into about what they think of the current state of the country, and where they’d like to see us go.
Here’s a few quick snapshots from my iPhone of a statue of Lincoln in front of David Wills‘ home, where Lincoln put the finishing touches to what would become one of the most famous and most quoted speech’s by an American President, of course I’m talking about the Gettysburg Address. I thought stopping here would be quite poignant to our journey, and I’m glad we did!
Also some great news, a project called “Change in Command,” has featured our videos on their Vimeo channel, and on their website. Their asking “what the inauguration means to you,” a question we’ll also be asking once we get to D.C. check them out!
Our drive from Newark was very smooth, we talked to some interesting folks in Allentown, PA, and finally someone who wanted to talk to us about John McCain.
Newark was our first stop after leaving New York City this morning, other then a little run in with some security, we found some interesting people and opinions from all walks of life. Feel free to discuss what you see in the comments!
Times Square had to be below 0, but we got two folks to stop and chat with us. The one thing I’m seeing is, it is either extremely hard to get people who didn’t vote for Obama, or we’re just not having any luck running into them. Our next stop is New Jersey, hopefully we’ll run into some good interviews there! Keep watching!
To keep “episodes” small, I split the New York content into two piece, the first section is who we ran into in Union Square. Again, we’ve had a tough time getting people to slow down the fast-paced world that New York is, but who we talked to had some great stuff to say!
The first stop of my trip didn’t really turn out the way I’d liked. I stopped about 20 people, people were either in a rush or it was just too darn cold for a man on the street interview. Truth be told, after the hour there, my feet still haven’t thawed. I hope this weather won’t effect the project too much, hopefully things go better in New York City!