(7 Jul 2011) SHOTLIST
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Tehran,Elahieh district, northern Tehran, 20 June 2011
1. Various Tehran's skyline and buildings
2. Various close-up of windows of unoccupied apartments
3. Mid construction crane
4. Close-up of an idle construction crane
5. Tilt-down of under-construction building and crane
6. PAN of construction workers working
7. Mid of supervising engineer and workers
8. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Alireza Farnia, architect and supervising engineer:
"it takes a long time to sell or rent out an apartment unit, from three months to one year. In one instance, we waited for a year and a half to sell an apartment. That is due to different reasons like inflation, price rises and soaring construction costs. Consequently, the housing prices climb and less and less people can afford to buy an apartment."
9. PAN interior of an apartment
10. Wide of buildings in distance and construction worker walking
11. Close-up of construction worker at site
12. PAN low-angle of under-construction apartment
13. Reverse-shot of a construction worker
Tehran, Gorgan street, east of city
14. Tilt-down of sign reading (Farsi) "Purchase, Sale, Mortgage and Rent"
15. PAN of agents and clients in a real estate agency
16. Close-up of hand counting traveler's checks
17. Mid of agent and clients bargaining
18. Close-up of document folders containing database of houses and apartment for rent or sale
19. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Masoud Yaghoubi, real estate agent:
"the season of moving and renting is around the corner but this year we are experiencing an unprecedented rise in the housing rates specially in rental payments. The rents have been raised up to about forty percent compared with last year this time. On the other hand, people's purchase power has fallen down to about thirty to forty percent because of heavy living costs."
20. Close-up of Yaghoubi's hand flipping through pages of house date file
21. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Masoud Yaghoubi, real estate agent:
"more than seventy percent of our clients do not earn even 500-thousand Tomans (about 415 US dollars) a month. It is only out of despair and lack of choice and under the pressure of difficult living circumstances that they sign rental agreements with landlords with unaffordable rental rates around 1-million Tomans (about 900 US dollars) or alternatively they pay 10-million Tomans (about 8,400 US dollars) as the security deposit and 700-thousand (about 580 US dollars) as the monthly rent."
22. PAN of a couple walking into the estate agency searching for a house
23. Close-up of couple's faces
24. Mid of clients and agent
25. Close-up of agent's hand browsing the pages of a file
26. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Ali Khooshegir, Tehran resident looking for an apartment:
"last year, we used to live in house a number of blocks up this neighborhood but this year we have to search for a new place many blocks down (geographically toward south of Tehran where houses are cheaper and life quality is poorer) our current place. I guess we are going to have to move out of Tehran to other towns next year! although small towns are better places to live but we do not have any social welfare and facilities there."
27. Wide of agent and his clients heading to a for-rent apartment
29. Mid of agent showing the couple around
32. Close-up of under-construction building
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