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December 12, 2006
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| Nov 3, 2006 Micah Kovler C/O FocusFilms www.focusfilms.com Dear Mr. Kovler, Several weeks ago, Tracy Drath, for our company, Lewis J Advertising, contacted you about some location scouting for our upcoming trip to Israel. Would you send us information on your fee for the information needed below, your favored method of payment, contract, and whether or not you would have the time to accommodate our needs? We are being given a tour of Jerusalem and the Dead Sea on Saturday 11-9-06, but would like to obtain some general information as noted below. I will be traveling to Israel on Nov. 9th, arriving the 10th, to photograph members of our client company doing business in the offices of their suppliers, discussing business in the streets of Tel Aviv and Jaffa, and a list of sites throughout Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and near the Dead Sea. I will be working with our Creative Director, Steve Coppola, to illustrate the fact that our client’s products actually do come from around the world (Israel being one the client’s buyers main destinations) and to come up with interesting images of interesting places that can be enlarged to be used in 60” backlit light boxes within the client’s stores. I will be photographing with a medium format digital camera and a 35mm-size dslr. It some cases I will be using a tripod and I will probably not look the part of a pure tourist to anyone observing me if that makes a difference, permission-wise. Our party will consist of Steve, the driver/translator, and me. We will not be using gaffers, grips, or assistants, in order to make the group small and tourist-like, as much as possible. I am mainly concerned about permission and permits if needed, the best viewpoints and direction the site faces for images to be made in the morning or afternoon, with a maximum 200mm lens, and any idiosyncrasies of the areas that we will be in. I have included a list of the major places we wish to photograph and would like your opinion of any that would be out of the ordinary for someone to set up a camera and tripod, to shoot. If permits are needed, we would like your help in obtaining them, as well. We will be mainly indoors at the clients offices and factories on Sunday 11/12/06 and part of Monday 11/11/06. We will shoot outdoors in Jaffa Monday afternoon and go back to Jerusalem and the Dead Sea areas on Tuesday and Wednesday. We will depart on Thursday. The sites we are considering are: Jerusalem Rooftops of the Jewish Quarter Temple Mount/Dome of the Rock (views from various elevations) Western wall (from outside the immediate area as I believe general photography is prohibited near it?) Views of the Old City from the ramparts Exteriors of walls, gates, and ramparts of the Old City General views of the City of Jerusalem Garden Tomb Church of the Holy Sepulcher Arches of the Coenaculum Arches of Pater Noster Exterior of Tomb of Zekhariah Panoramas of Mount Scopus Views within the Old City Market Mount of Olives and surrounding panoramas Dead Sea Area Sea and cliff shots Kumran Views of Moab and Edom Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you, Best regards, Frank Meeker Photographer Lewis J Advertising 9200 E. Mineral Ave Suite 200 Englewood, CO 80112 USA frankm@lewisj.com 303-792-3568 |