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the concept of this film is that a demon
army representing all the NHL teams has
taken over Rogers arena and our Canucks
gear up and battle them the exciting
part was basically trying to create a
setting a scene a look that makes our
players stand out the idea of taking
this warrior aspects of what we would
normally encounter in an epic battle and
just putting it on the ice when Mike and
I first met started talking through this
was whatever we do the guys have to look
cool we're putting them in an
environment where they excel because
they're exceptional athletes and
exceptional hockey players and how can
we make them look incredibly comfortable
in an environment where the otherwise
might not be in front of a camera doing
something that isn't its natural for
them as plain hockey Mike and I spent
hours and multiple meetings poring over
different inspirational opening videos
from all kinds of different sports at
the end of the day we looked at this
going we're in the north
Canadians are tough Canadians are strong
we deal with things that are in northern
and snow and ice and such and sort of
went to Game of Thrones and the winter
is coming vibe
having Steve Jackson as a
cinematographer was just amazing
I knew the director from Ricky no show
called once upon a time it's the look
that I sort of established on that over
five years and I probably stole it from
Terminator if we want to be true about
it
it's a very deep blue style and a lot of
mood and quite a bit of smoke all those
elements kind of came together for what
Mike had in mind the whole thing was
pretty exciting he shot it all at off
speed and some weird frame rates we used
a rig called a movi rig we had also had
a camera dolly with a suspended arm on
it as well to chase with a dolly but it
was the movi rig that flew really well
for us get in there with the skaters
when they're crushing things and pucks
are flying the biggest challenge was
trying to get as much footage as we
could done in a short period of time we
did this over a weekend and our
aspirations were incredibly hot
20,000 fans no problem but yeah you guys
our main group of this demon horde was
30 players and we had an additional 20
that we were using in the background so
to get all these 50 people looking like
demons with all the special effects
prosthetic makeup it basically took a
small army to make this film so we'll
have a skull of a zombie or diamond face
we then pour foam into that mold we bake
the mold and then get out prosthetic
that we can apply to these guys we prep
their skin we glue it down that we've
got one remedy throughout the day on it
and keep them comfortable all day as
well because it's not the easiest
wearing that stuff they're used to
having tight times and having to get
makeups done and thankfully it's demon
so it's not like a perfectly clean
makeup you can have a little bit of
extra goo and blood and all the fun
stuff
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Berlin's gonna come up here with the
puck he's gonna have two guys come at
him and he's gonna bowling-ball them
both over and continue up ice and they
came to me with the storyboard of how
this is gonna play out my job was to
take any of the Kanak players that are
going to be focused on and try to design
a play that accentuates their special
skill not only thinking of a hockey
player and what looks good but then also
from what the camera wants to see and
it's going to see then just kind of
shift things around so we got a really
good angle and kind of brings everything
to life I've got a really good stunt
coordinator in Paul woo who I've worked
with before I know that when I was drawn
up I hit that he's gonna be able to have
his guys executed
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normally for stunts and some of these
bigger sequences I'd be familiar with
all personnel but we've got a lot of
people who aren't familiar with filmer
and just they see hockey players have
come in and volunteered their time to
help understanding who's good at what
and what their skill sets are has been a
bit of a challenge we're just trying to
make sure that another Canucks get
injured during our shoot but I actually
think that that's probably not really
much of a concern it's actually more the
opposite kind of have to make sure they
don't hurt any of my guys on some of
these hits my favorite part of the day
would probably be the hip check I threw
I got to see the action shot afterwards
and they do a heck of a job making me
look pretty good it's crazy amount of
people in the ice and it takes a lot of
people for this to go right but it was
cool to be in the spotlight and be on
that side of it just to see what goes on
with the people who are filming and
coordinating and everything and you
always watch the movies and you never
really get to see what's going on behind
the lines
we're dealing with the busiest time in
the Vancouver film industry in the
busiest month of the year so all these
people came in on their weekend after
putting in a full 65 to 80 hour week on
a film set and then came in and worked
with us everybody effectively in the
city is a fan of the Canucks so it was
very very easy to have crew jump on
board to help us with us a video like
this within the room that gets the guys
fired up you have some music to it and
guys surviving around to it and kind of
bouncing feels like it kind of brings
you together you understand what's at
stake going into that match and this is
a good way to get pumped up for it
there's two things that I hope that this
film will do one is entertain people and
the second is hopefully pump up the
crowd our hope is that inspires people
to get into the game and helps reinforce
how much these guys on the ice are
warriors and our
fighting for each other and the city