NSWRL secretly film more than 100 hours of Blues’ Origin build up for movie
THE story of the history-Âmaking Blues is about to be made into a movie. In a rugby league first, the NSWRL has spent the past eight months secretly filming every moment of the Blues Origin build-up and historic series win.
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THE story of the history-making Blues is about to be made into a movie.
In a rugby league first, the NSWRL has spent the past eight months secretly filming every moment of the Blues Origin build-up and historic series win.
The NSWRL has recorded more than one hundred hours of never-before-seen footage which will make for fascinating viewing.
What began as an idea and opportunity to pull back the curtain on Brad Fittler’s “new-era” Blues has transformed into a perfectly timed archive of incredible video.
It’s yet another example of Fittler’s “open door” policy and desire to promote the Blues by using different forms of media to excite and re-engage with fans across the state.
Not only has Fittler had a microphone attached to him during training sessions throughout the series, a cameraman and boom operator have been following him from the moment he was named head coach last November.
The one-hour production will be unprecedented as far as taking rugby league fans and viewers inside the inner sanctum of the state’s most revered sporting outfit.
The footage will take viewers inside the players’ meetings where Fittler and his staff plotted Queensland’s downfall, at the team’s quirky yoga sessions, on the team bus, inside the coach’s box on Origin night and with the players in the dressing rooms after the series was won.
One-on-one interviews with coaching staff and players is also captured.
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“From the moment Freddy walked into camp and set what he stands for and what he wants his camp to be, we’ve captured it all,” Jodie Cross, NSWRL head of commercial and community relations, told The Sunday Telegraph.
“The camera goes everywhere. Before kick-off in the dressing rooms, at halftime, in the coach’s box — we’ve captured all that content. The raw emotion is incredible and it’s not until you’re in there, that you realise the significance of it.”
Cross said the NSWRL was yet to determine when the film would be shown and who would showcase the documentary with the Blues key sponsors and NRL broadcast partners Fox Sports and Nine, undoubtedly interested in securing the footage.
“It’s yet to be determined, but we know the content we’ve got is unique and that’s something that started last year,’’ Cross said.
“We believed, as soon as Freddy was appointed, it was going to be a new era for the Blues.
“We knew that we needed to capture all that content.
“We set about making sure that he was comfortable with having cameras there, 24/7.
“With 11 new debutants coming into the team, it’s really great that we’ve been able to capture that journey.
“It’s just as much about the new era and the new players coming through, as it is the new coach coming through.
“It’s unpredented access.
“The players have been really comfortable with it.
“When we produce it at the end, the fan will get a real insight into what it actually took to win a series and how he (Fittler) went about doing that and how much every individual in our camp dug in to do whatever it takes to get there.’’