The Winner Production Notes (cont'd)

We all had had experience on set watching filmmakers do their thing, so we had a sketchy idea of how to tell a story in moving pictures. Movies require money and we scraped together 2 grand (that's Canadian money!) We made a list of crucial crew positions and realized we needed outside help, a lot of it. So we called up friends that we knew we could rely on; some were really experienced at their jobs, some not so much, but everyone stretched their talents for us. Caron, bless her soul, took charge of feeding the crew with a skimpy budget. After knocking on many doors she managed to get Domino's Pizza to donate lunch for two days of our shoot. Caron's organized shopping and personal cooking covered the other days. That, unfortunately, wasn't as successful. To this day it's known as "rice surprise". But we lived through the smell and there were enough munchies to survive on. Of course we had to rent the gear and get insurance as well. Money.... gone. We got a big helping hand from the folks at PS Production Services a la Ian, our gaffer. And for the details, we got creative. For example, Darren made a slate out of a clipboard and angle brackets (it worked beautifully). When we forgot to bring it to the 2nd unit shoot, he made another one out of spit and paper clips.

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