Day 188 - 15 Nov 95 - Page 13


     
     1        A.  Of my notes, yes.
     2
     3   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Just pause a moment. (Pause)  Yes.
     4
     5   MR. MORRIS:  Were there any other respects you felt the film may
     6        not have been an accurate portrayal?
     7        A.  I think there were odd little things which -- I mean,
     8        there was a lot of extra cleaning that was done for no
     9        particular reason.  I mean, I think actually the stores
    10        were very clean places on the whole, but there was extra
    11        cleaning that was done.  For example, when we were going to
    12        film the clocking-on sequence, somebody was dispatched to
    13        clean the wall behind the clock and to stack the cards
    14        neatly.  So it was that kind of -- instances like that all
    15        the time, to ensure that the normal hurly-burly of the
    16        store was presented in the most clean and proper way and
    17        everything looked in its place.  So there was a constant
    18        attention to detail like that all the time.
    19
    20   Q.   Would you just walk around with a camera, with McDonald's
    21        not knowing where you were going to go, or would it be set
    22        up?
    23        A.  It is partly the process of filming.  Obviously, if you
    24        are going to do something like clocking on, you actually
    25        cannot just stand and run a film and wait until someone
    26        comes along and puts the card in the clock; you actually
    27        have to organise it in advance, so you would have to say,
    28        "We want to film someone clocking on"; and, I mean, then
    29        we would know the next shift was about to start, so that
    30        they would know that we were going to do that.  But,
    31        similarly, if you were going to -- say that you were going
    32        to film the Big Mac area, then, clearly, a television
    33        camera going into an area like that, you know, you cannot
    34        walk in with a camera and plonk it down and start filming.
    35        So there would have to be, in advance, agreement about what
    36        we were going to film and how long we were going to do it,
    37        and where the camera was going to go.  So McDonald's always
    38        knew in advance where we were filming.  We could not just
    39        wander around.
    40
    41   Q.   Did they take any steps when they knew you were going to go
    42        into a particular area?
    43        A.  That was the kind of thing that would happen, that if
    44        we said we were going to start filming in the Big Mac
    45        section or the clocking-on section, or something; so that
    46        when we were going to film the crew room, somebody was sent
    47        up to clean the crew room, to make sure it was spotless.
    48        There was all that pre-preparation that went on.
    49
    50        But, I mean, I think the point I would like to make is that 
    51        we were not stopped physically from filming by McDonald's, 
    52        but the nature of it was that they always knew where we 
    53        were going to be in advance.  We were stopped physically
    54        from filming when we were interviewing people.  On one
    55        instance, when I think a number of managers were all really
    56        hassling a particular crew member and we put the camera on
    57        that -- we swung the camera round from the till area,
    58        I think, on to that -- Corinne realised that that was what
    59        we were doing and instantly stopped us filming.
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