The Winner Production Notes (cont'd)

Aah, 2nd unit. Usually a luxury of bigger budget projects – for us it was a necessity. We had to trash a whole day's shooting from the previous weekend due to technical difficulties, and had to make up eight and a half pages with no money to rent the gear another day! So Ivan nabbed a skeleton crew for a night shoot into the wee hours with coffee and Tim Bits. Turning night into day made us feel like real filmmakers, and it came out looking great. By this point we were rounding the learning curve like Speedy Gonzales. After the last day of shooting we felt like old pros and nobody wanted the project to end.....we were having too much fun! Is this right? What happened to nervous breakdowns, screaming directors and high maintenance actors? Everyone felt beautiful for our undertaking and we popped cheap champagne to celebrate the end of principle photography.

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