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Ice Time
The rink runs on eleven volunteers, a second-hand compressor, and a schedule nobody wants to be the one to break.
Watch trailer- Location
- Flin Flon, Manitoba
- Year
- 2023
- Runtime
- 18 min
- Format
- Community documentary short
Trailer
Synopsis
The arena has been community-owned since 1961. It is also the only building in town with room for everybody in it at once.
Ice Time was made for the rink board's funding renewal and then screened at the arena itself, projected onto a bedsheet. It follows the crew who flood, scrape and open the doors at five in the morning.
The brief was to make something the volunteers would actually sit through. We kept it short, left the narration out, and let the crew do the talking.
Our role
- Director and camera
- Nine early mornings shot before public skate, one operator on the floor.
- Location sound
- Two radio rigs so the crew could keep working through their interviews.
- Editing
- Assembly, fine cut and a sixty-second version for the town's own channels.
- Community liaison
- Consent, scheduling and a viewing session with the board before lock.
Production highlights
- Nine shooting mornings, all before the doors opened to the public
- Interviews recorded while the crew kept working, on radio mics
- Screened at the arena before the first home game of the season
- Cut down to a sixty-second version for the town's social channels
Stills from the shoot
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