Day 188 - 15 Nov 95 - Page 12


     
     1        question, which is in these notes.
     2
     3   Q.   Just a couple of examples.
     4        A.  So that was one example.  There is another example
     5        where, on one of the days we were filming, a new employee
     6        had just started that day; so, when he had finished his
     7        shift, we just thought we would go over and ask him what
     8        his experience was, "What was it like, you know, your first
     9        day at McDonald's"; and we thought it would just be a very
    10        lighthearted thing.  One of the managers alerted Corinne to
    11        the fact that we were going to talk to a crew member, and
    12        it was rushed over and that was stopped.
    13
    14   Q.   What do you mean "it was rushed over"?
    15        A.  Corinne ran over or rushed over to see what we were
    16        doing and stopped the filming, so we were not allowed to
    17        just talk to him about what it was like to do his first day
    18        at McDonald's.
    19
    20        At the university sessions, one of the store managers said
    21        something -- I mean, you know, not devastatingly critical
    22        that I can remember, but was vaguely critical of the
    23        course; and Bill Tindale said that we could not use that
    24        question in our filming.
    25
    26        So there was constant monitoring of what we were filming
    27        all the time.
    28
    29   Q.   Right.  All these examples appear in your notes, do they?
    30        A.  Yes.
    31
    32   Q.   When you wrote your statement, did you -- how did you write
    33        your statement?
    34        A.  I wrote my statement basically going through these
    35        notes that are here and kind of, you know, just really
    36        trying to work out whether I could remember clearly what
    37        were in my notes and whether I could remember those
    38        instances.
    39
    40   Q.   Right.  Now, was there any other aspect of the filming
    41        which you felt did or did not give an accurate picture of
    42        McDonald's?
    43        A.  I think, on the whole, the film gives an accurate
    44        representation of what it is like to be in a store.
    45        I mean, I think that there were areas -- extra staff were
    46        brought into the Strand store to make sure that everything
    47        went smoothly.  So they probably had more staff on in the
    48        days they we were filming than they would have had
    49        normally.  I think, you know, there is a couple of
    50        instances in this ----- 
    51 
    52   Q.   Sorry -- how do you know that? 
    53        A.  Because they would tell us, so that -----
    54
    55   Q.   Who, the managers or the crew?
    56        A.  The managers would tell us.  I mean, I think Almaz
    57        herself said something about "to make sure that the food
    58        would not run short".  It is on page 16.
    59
    60   Q.   Of your notes?

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