I'm working on a video project to show my idea of what SR is, collecting various movie and TV Show clips, combining them into a large video and use that to explain what I see Shadowrun like.
I've got a series of clips, ranging from technology to cities to people to commercials to sports and so forth. But one thing I am having problems with is the legwork, the planning stages. I was looking at Burn Notice and Leverage, because those two basically give a different version of SR than say an action movie shoot-em-up. But, while I haven't watched the entire collection of Burn Notice yet since coming up with this idea, I can't think of a good example or collection of examples of legwork.
What do I consider legwork? Johnny Mnemonic's hacking scene as he tried to figure out what was in his head was legwork, the scouting of the Playtronics building in Sneakers was legwork, but I don't have anything for pre-operation 'Here's what we need, let's go gather it' sort of legwork, except maybe some scenes in Ronin I could use. I'm open to suggestions though, and once I finish it, I plan to post it here.
Some examples I was thinking that could be used would be the Ronin scenes, maybe mixed with the Prison security system mapping scenes in Season 4 of Leverage, bits from Ariel episode in Firefly, and off the top of my head the only real legwork scenes that may work from Burn Notice is in season 2 I think it was, watching Karla's building and the building that the keycard worked for. More are good, because I want to try and get a little of everything; leaning on contacts for information, surveillance of the target, etc.