DAY FOUR of my secret shoot takes us to my eleventh state in America, Rhode Island. Rhode Island is the smallest state in size in the United States. It covers an area of 1,214 square miles. Rhode Island was the last of the original thirteen colonies to become a state.
We started are day at the state house getting b-roll and going through my lines. Then we headed to get more footage at Benefit Street which has the oldest colonials buildings in America.
For lunch we headed to Trinity Brewhouse in Downtown Providence. We tried some IPA’s and ate fish sandwiches. They have some amazing beers!
Next we drove 45 minutes south to Beavertail Lighthouse on Conanicut Island. Beavertail Lighthouse was built in 1856 and is the premier lighthouse in Rhode Island. It is located at the entrance of Narragansett Bay.
For dinner we headed to Federal Hill which has been dubbed Little Italy because in the first two decades of the 20th century many Italian-Americans moved into this neighborhood. We had to eat Italian at Cassarino’s.
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Hey guys, David Hoffman here from David's been here. I just woke up in Rhode Island my 11th state. We drove in yesterday
We only saw a little bit of Providence the capital today. It's like all day b-roll
We're gonna get a few shots of me doing my intro and outro all over Providence
I think we're gonna also go down to like Warwick. Rhode Island is very small
And yeah, I'm staying here at the Hilton Garden Inn and we're gonna go to breakfast now and see Carlos
Yeah, this is a fire alarm at 5 in the morning here crazy
Yeah, it took me a little bit though, but you have no idea like you're dead sleep. It's like
I'm on a boat
b-roll
calm
So we're back in Providence. It's a beautiful day
Morning. Yeah, dude 5 a.m.
Somebody must have been doing something. I have no idea. It's crazy. Now. You're that b-roll be
BBB I
Used to carry that tripod around the world. I remember there's 22 days in Switzerland
I had that thing on my back basically every day on my shoulder
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Hi guys, David Hoffman here from David's been here
I'm now in Rhode Island with the case for change for the story of Hannah. This is the Rhode Island State House
It's over 100 years old bill in 1904
Like I was saying today
We're focusing on b-roll doing my part my intro and outro for this case for change to the story of Hannah
Hannah is a Liberian girl
The case is the 1 million project set up by Sprint which aims to provide 1 million
Low-income students with internet access at home. It's getting a lot of b-roll. It's like infinite b-roll. Yeah
So right now I'm gonna set up the 360
Camera, this is Benefit Street the most impressive concentration of colonial homes in America. You can see that was somebody's house, by the way
Isn't that crazy?
Yeah, that was somebody's house for the next one
So, I guess when the Redcoats were here, huh the Redcoats your brothers
Very colonial
Oh, look at that one more shot. All right, you open the case get the GoPro and just walk off. Perfect
Let's do it
What's happening here, I'm bringing the drone back down. Here we go. Here we go. Oh, there it is. Oh
We're late
Liquid lunch, so guys surprise. I'm taking you to another brewery
No, I'm taking you to Trinity brew house, you know how we hate to drink I know I know how we hate drinking
You know how we had clients and we hate beer
These guys are like my beer brothers. They drink way more than me though. You guys can drink ales like non-stop. Hey, how you doing?
Very good for four or that. Uh, they had a milk stout
Not real I'm good with IPA you yeah, happy bitter full-bodied. Yeah, perfect
Cheers
Yeah, right
Here we have the Rhode Island IPA, this is what I love drinking
And right here's Carlos's IPA it is the best 2107 so papaya stone fruit citrus
Passion fruit to Carlos. I'm taking this one
So what do you guys think everybody got the fish sandwich? No, you didn't jerk chicken jerk chicken sandwich
Good I'm sure it's good man, basically fish and chips with the addition of some bread, which is no bad thing
Best choice
Hey think globally drink locally
We're headed 28 miles south of Providence to beaver tail lighthouse
One of the best lighthouses the most historic lighthouses in Rhode Island
1856 was when it was founded. It's 64 feet high
The whistle house and garage were destroyed by the New England hurricane of 18
1938 and the lighthouse provides navigation for boats and ships entering the
Narrowing Sungate Bay and East Passage between Connecticut Island and Newport, but we all knew that anyway
So probably no point of me telling you
Yeah
White light rotates counterclockwise and makes a full rotation about a no six or seven seconds
I'd say the light is on 24 hours a day with a rotation every six seconds
Unlike many lighthouses that are near it and that's me growing over giving you all the news you need to get around, Rhode Island
Thank you. And good night
So we're here in Connecticut Island in the town of Jamestown getting some shots here by beaver beaver tail lighthouse
Connecticut
Connecticut. Oh, this is sick. This is awesome. I think the wind factor is gonna destroy this down here
Dude, you can easily fall here though
And what will face it?
This is freaking beautiful, look at this
And that's beaver tail lighthouse right there BAM I would jump in but I don't want to die
Yeah
Smells good feels great
You're gonna be best shot over there there. Yeah, I died over there
I should be gonna sound like here's fine, but over there the wind gonna be
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So we just finished the shoot what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna get some drone shots
Hopefully the winds not so bad and I can get some epic stuff here. I mean the coast here is incredible as rocks
I
Ready ready to go home. Yeah. All right guys
Let's go back to Providence and right there's beaver tail lighthouse
Alright, so we finished for the day. We're gonna go back to the hotel now
We just dropped off Graham and Zach. We're gonna head back to our Hilton Garden Inn
I mean, it's about a seven minute drive
Which is not bad, but the traffic is horrible
To me and Carlson to get some shots here drone shots of the Hilton Garden Inn as well as out here in the water
Indian Point Park
So there's a center of Providence called Federal Hill. This is known for Italian community
This is lots of Italian restaurants everywhere. So we're thinking Italian and Dino
Cassadino, I think and another one that's called something vino
Cuz you know, we're in little Italy basically good Italian food, so I was like, hey
What a Bambino's over and Bambino's they got lots of good stuff
Italian no, so no franchise a power ingress a
Man
So right here. I got the farmhouse ale. It's from a town nearby really good a little strong though. I think it's 8% 7.8
So this is what you guys drink a lot of this is our water, it's what we drink good you're the same thing as me
There's really good
So good
Pulling up the body
Oh that dinner was amazing it was
Italian food in Providence who would have known right going home. I want to go to sleep. I'm so tired
Tomorrow's our last day in Rhode Island. And so it's a busy shoot day. See you in the morning