Title: Off the Record

Author: Samara McDowell

In: Sport 32: Summer 2004

Publication details: Fergus Barrowman, December 2004

Part of: Sport

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Sport 32: Summer 2004

The Documentary

The Documentary

There's no money.

There's about a dozen people, working for free, working on good equipment which has been begged or charmed or, at any rate, borrowed, working on weekends, late nights, around paid jobs and the mild resentment of their partners.

There are people who have been doing camera, or sound, or editing, or in some cases all three, for twenty years.

There are people who are doing this because they have not, and they want to learn.

There are four months, during which time pretty much no one sleeps.

After a while the crew drops off to about four or five, rotating gigs when they can.

There's no money.