House of Worship Tour

The House of Worship Tour 2010 was to be a Special Event for SWOCC Studios, happening late in 2010 as part of the Special Events Show. Mid-way through post-production, work on it was canceled. This was due to both lack of cooperation from the religious facilities that were to feature, and from schedule conflicts for the edit room.

Production
Eric suggested off-the-fly that the Dozerfleet founder should make an attempt to cover the tour, since nobody else either could do it or was interested in it. The day-of-shoot, there were issues with the Dozerfleet founder's grandparents deciding to visit, which interfered with the scheduling for shooting. By the time he made it to the Jewish synagogue in Farmington Hills, it had been vacated. He managed to reach the mosque in town, but only in time to shoot about four minutes' worth of usable footage. From there, it was on to the Jain temple in town. There were a few interesting sights to see there, but not enough to base a whole special on. The tour group didn't stay long at the temple. By the time the Dozerfleet founder was able to drive through construction traffic to downtown Farmington for the Methodist church, the tour was over and there was no way inside the building.

The tour's head apologized, saying that half an hour per place was not nearly long enough to do justice to any one center. He promised that in future years, a full hour would be granted to each participating center. Attempts to reach the church and synagogue about re-shoots proved fruitless, with the synagogue's phone receptionist even going so far as to be nasty about how she said no.

With only a little bit of useable footage from the mosque and Jain temple, combined with the lack of cooperation from other parties, SWOCC decided that covering the event at all was too much trouble.

SoaT rating
This is an estimate based on the assumption that the city didn't spend more than $30,000 to make this diversity-schmersity-oriented piece.