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Originally Posted by EdFromOttawa
Actually not a big fan. Distorts a lot in terms of scale (i.e. making that big church downtown seem huge when in fact it's quite small relatively speaking; ditto with the office buildings downtown). Also completely ignores Lansdowne Park (granted unfinished but they could have done this before the reconstruction began), and CTC.
It implies too much and actually doesn't cover that much of Ottawa, other than what people already know.
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When it comes to scale, I think that's the point. The video is being used by the Ottawa Film Office to promote shooting productions in Ottawa. Producers need to see how the city can look on camera; they should be able to watch the video and see that Ottawa can pass for a city with a much larger scale like New York. If it was a tourism video I'd expect it to be more to the actual scale of the city because you want to capture the city as people will see it.
When it comes to Lansdowne Park and CTC, again, if it was a tourism video they could include those attractions, but I don't know why they should be included in a video to promote filming in Ottawa.