00:00What inspired you to create a show like On Call that blends body cam, Dutch cam style?
00:07It's very simple. The question of who wanted to or who would be a police officer in 2023-2024
00:13when we were developing this was a fascinating question for me to explore. Everything else,
00:18all of the other bells and whistles, if you will, the cinematic cameras and that was secondary.
00:24But for me, what inspired me was getting opportunity to understand who gets up in
00:31the morning, puts on uniform and the badge and goes out and does an incredibly difficult job
00:36in a difficult time. Were there any technical or creative challenges in integrating these styles
00:46into the storyline? How long do we have?
00:49Yeah, a ton. Short answer is yes. I mean, from body cam alone for a moment,
00:58it has such a wide angle that you can't do traditional staging. It changes the production
01:03process entirely. Luckily, we had an amazing crew who was game to experiment with us and an
01:09amazing cast who was game to strap the cameras onto their body and deliver their performance
01:16while also filming. So it was truly a team effort in that sense.
01:21Well, I think the rookie is just naturally sort of fish out of water for the audience coming in,
01:27you know, a bit naive in terms of what it takes to be a police officer today. And Tracy Harmon
01:34is a 12-year veteran and has absolutely a different outlook on what policing is.
01:41Naturally for the audience, someone on the first day of their job is a little bit more accessible.
01:47As storytellers, it was really fun for us to balance those scales and look at, you know,
01:53any given situation from both officers perspective. It was fun and it was a challenge. Yeah.
01:59It was important for you guys to show the human aspect of the police work.
02:06So people understand a little bit more about this difficult task.
02:12Yeah. And at the end of the day, you know, our characters are humans first who happen to be
02:18police officers. And we approach the storytelling that way too. You never go home with these
02:23characters, but you learn so much about who they are, not just what they're doing on a day-to-day
02:28basis, but who they are as people. I'd also add to that, that, you know, the criminal element too,
02:34we wanted to make that as three-dimensional as possible. We're not looking at anything as
02:39white and black. It's all gray. We're not judging these characters, even if they are
02:43getting arrested or they are the criminal element. It was very important
02:48to, for us to make everybody, see everybody through a human lens. Yeah.
02:53What was the collaboration process with the cast, with the whole crew to bring this vision to life?
03:00It was an amazing working experience. We love our cast and our crew and this show would not be
03:08what it is without, honestly, everyone involved. It was a true team effort and it felt like a
03:15family. Yeah. We had quite a few people who were perhaps in a transitional state in their careers
03:22and had a lot to prove and wanted to prove it and took this opportunity to do that.
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