Early on I started talking to an entertainment lawyer to find out what we needed to know about making a documentary from a legal standpoint. And she spoke to me like this was a real project even before there was a real project.
We were throwing around a lot of ideas at that time. From early on, we knew we’d want to use a combination of current and former employees, and traditional and security camera footage. But there was still a lot of debate about how, and to what degree, we should use each of those elements.
But buying equipment and talking to a lawyer made it seem like this could really happen and believing that it could really happen kept us persistent to figure it out. It all worked together to give us a momentum forward.
Some of us still had doubts that it would ever become anything, but at the very least it seemed like it might actually happen.
That was genuinely exciting.