| Crystal Pyramid Productions' digital video crew produced a video over several months about Allied Waste Services' landfill operations at their Otay and Sycamore landfills. Seen above is the Sycamore landfill on a typical day, and below is Videographer and Director of Photograhy, Mark Schulze, at the Sycamore Aggregate Facility. Photographs by Digital Photographer and Sound Technician, Patty Mooney. The video features aerials of both Otay and Sycamore Landfills, as well as a timelapse video shot over six weeks while an Otay Landfill liner was installed.
During the shoot we learned that the methane gas created by garbage in the landfill is harnessed to provide energy to several hundred homes in the adjoining neighborhoods. The Allied Waste Services landfill video won a Pegasus Award and has been used as a demo reel for other waste services around the United States. Outdoor locations can be tricky when shooting and producing video, especially in an environment where crows caw, large garbage trucks bellow and beep, and fireworks go off at regular intervals to scare the scavengers. But Audio Technician, Patty Mooney, is happy to report that using her "Standard Operating Procedure" of a lavalier pin microphone affixed to the talent's lapel, along with a boom pole on a C-stand , produced very good quality audio.
During the second weekof the timelapse videography, the city of San Diego nearly burned down due to raging wildfires that occurred in multiple locations. At one point, we wondered if the small wooden shed which housed the Sony PD-150 would be somehow affected, but the video footage showed gray smoke plumes for a period of time and then the skies cleared once more. The timelapse videography turned out to be a strong element in Allied Waste Service's landfill operations video production.
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