Saturday, December 18, 2010

Week 10

Production accessible for public viewing at School of Business & Computer Science- Media centre, Picton Street, POS from 14-18 December 2010.

Wk8

Completed project.

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Documentary wk7

Headed to Florida to shoot footage of Sheldon Bissessar aka the Trinidad Rocket at Snowbird Nationals in Bradenton Motorsports Park.

Captured footage of interviews with US race fans, racers and mechanics.

The footage of racing in the US will be used to highlight the grandeur of drag racing outside of T&T

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Documentary wk6

Completed trailer for Death of Drag Racing.

Documentary wk5

14/11/10 Completed cutaways of San Fernando Grand Prix at Cross Crossing
16/11/10 Completed interview with President Motorsport Association of Trinidad & Tobago -Rawle Mahabir
17/11/10 Completed interview with racer and rotary tuner/mechanic Sean Ready

Documentary wk4

10/11/10
Completed interview with drag racing fan Jerry Gordon at Wallerfield.

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Documentary Update wk3

Production schedule started earlier on 02/11/10 due to alteranate arrangements with Aaron Dowridge at Gasparillo.  Interview completed.

03/11/10 -

10:00 a.m.- Met with former world record holder (drag racing) Ryan Garcia at his business place United Auto in Barataria.  Interview completed.

2:00 p.m. -Met with ex-President TTASA, Jameer Ali at his residence in Tumpuna Court, Arima.  Interview completed.

4:00 p.m. -Met with Honourable Minister of Sport, Anil Roberts at his constituency office in Arima.  Interview completed.

5:30 p.m. -Completed graveyard shooting of racing helmet, flower and unknown person in Arima Cemetery

Documentary Update wk2

Proposal presented at SBCS -Port of Spain.  Proposal also included video clip and web page viewing.  Generally well accepted and within time frame allotted.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Action plan

Preproduction info:

Permissions to have interviews done at the interviewee`s premises have been sought.  A list of credible interviewees has been developed including Former World drag racing record holder- Ryan SKF Garcia, Monster Sunny- Sean Ready, Fastest Street Legal Skyline-Aaron Dowridge, President of Motorsport Association of T&T-Rawle Mahabir, Ex-President of T&T Automotive Sport Association-Jameer Ali, Popular local motorsport website -www.Trinituner.com Executive -Duane Boodasingh, Zorce racing editor- Narend Sooknarine.  We are still seeking the permission to interview Minister of Sport, Honourable Anil Roberts.  Failing this we shall approach a representative from the Ministry of Sport & Youth Affairs.

Documentary will be 24 minutes in length and adopt a narrative approach with a target audience of males 18-45 years with interest in local drag racing .  Narration, editing and camera operation will be done by Rodney Granado.  The documentary will include some pics & video clips of past local drag racing events in addition to the views of  persons on the interview list.

Production info:

The interviews will begin from 03/11/10 with Ryan Garcia at his business place United Auto, EMR Barataria at 2:00 p.m. and continue with other similar face to face interviews until 14/11/10 at the San Fernando Grand Prix at Cross Crossing.  An attempt will be made, however, to cover illegal street racing but this is to be announced.

Post production should be completed by 24/11/10.