“ We also had videos of various junctions throughout the day, set up to record both the changing light and the typical traffic flow, vehicles, pedestrians and the kind of things they did. We read books detailing New York’s infrastructure, the sewers, subways, garbage disposal, et cetera. We used Census information to decide on the ethnic demographics for each area of the city. We used architectural plans to define the basic layouts of apartments and used satellite imagery to look at the typical ways city blocks were laid out in each area. We looked at sales figures for make and models of cars to decide what would likely be seen, we went through hundreds of thousands of images, making collections of pedestrians up for each area and we had a full-time research team based in New York that constantly fed us information or additional images and video. Most useful, though, was experiencing things first hand.
kevinroyden
I try.
May 5, 2008