SHOTLIST NEW YORK, NEW YORK STATE, UNITED STATES DECEMBER 28, 2021 SOURCE: AFPTV 1. Close-up of a woman writing “Goodbye to covid” on one of the letters2. Medium shot of a woman writing on one of the letters 3. Close-up of a letter that says “I want to get rid of not being able to meet my friends” 4. Medium shot of people showing what they wrote in their letters5. Close-up of documents being burned 6. SOUNDBITE 1 – Robin Myers, teacher (female, English, 8 sec.): “I want to get rid of COVID and quarantines so my children can be normal again, go out and see their friends . ” “I want to get rid of covid and quarantines, so that my kids can be normal again and see their friends and be out and be social.” 7. SOUNDBITE 2 – Jason Seringes, student (15 sec.): “I want to get rid of distance learning because it has already been more than a year and a half doing it and I hope for this year 2022, to be able to take classes in person.” “(I want) To get rid of online learning, cause it’s been more than one half years that I’ve been doing learning online and I was so much like that …. this year, in ’22, to be able to do online learning at the … in person. ” 8. SOUNDBITE 3 – Tom Harris, Times Square Alliance President (English, 9 sec.): “I want to say goodbye to this mask, it is time we put the masks and the covid in the rear view mirror.” “I want to say good riddance to this mask. So it’s about time that we leave these masks behind and the covid in the rearview mirror.” 9. Medium shot of a woman placing her letter on a symbolic wall in Times Square10. Close-up of some letters with people’s wishes to burn11. Top-down panning of Times Square buildings to event attendees12. Medium shot of the event organizers burning letters13. General shot of event organizers burning a 2021 poster
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