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So that’s sort of what I tried to offer to my crew. So anyways, I got Bernie, as I said, I met him through Selling Your Screenplay. He’s my cinematographer. Jimmy was our sound guy. Literally he calls himself “Sound Guy Jimmy.” That is how he’s branded himself. He is a real sound professional. Like you look him up on IMDb, he’s got dozens of credits. I found him on Craigslist, just put up an ad and he wasn’t doing anything. So again, once he submitted his resume, oh gee, this guy’s got a lot of experience. He seems cool. And we got on the phone, me and Bernie got on a phone call with him. Bernie has also done sound, so Bernie is very technical with all this equipment and knows the sound equipment. And that was one of the things — we needed a sound guy that had his own equipment. This thing’s micro budget, so you kind of got to come with your own sound package, which Jimmy definitely had.
