Part III - Bigger Production

Pedersen points out that it's completely different type of work in terms of economy, lasting and many other things.

- This is time consuming and thus we must take more employees. Some of our ways of approaching work seem old-fashioned and unnecessary, while these new are useful and something we certainly will take for Norwegian films. I think it has been both exciting and informative to take part in the Snowman. It’s been hard work and long hours, but that's what makes movies. The biggest difference is that everything is much bigger, and, this we mentioned many-many times, in all departments.

Moberg is also has no doubts that the Snowman project represents another way of making movies than what we're used to at home.

- There are far more people involved and it's a more hierarchical structure. Budget is considerably larger, for more demanding standards for ongoing monitoring of expenditure through a system based on internally generated purchase orders. An unfamiliar and cumbersome system for us and for many of our suppliers, which has led to much more of additional bureaucracy. But the necessity of such a system is still evident for such a big production.

The building manager believes it's in the meeting between these two organizational models that improves approach to new projects.

- The more direct communication I experience at most Norwegian productions I miss here. Meanwhile, I see the benefits of clearer role distributions represented on Snowman. I hope there will be room for a good round of evaluation afterwards, so that we can learn lessons for future projects.