Production Notes - Scene 12 - Liberation of Dieppe

In this scene, we return to some of the Canadian soldiers that Lance was embedded with at the beginning of the film. This serves as a bit of a reminder of the Walter Sears character, so that his appearance at the end of the movie wouldn't come as a surprise.

Originally, I had the idea to include another battle sequence here, depicting Canadian soldiers mopping up a stubborn group of Germans trying to hold the town. Historically, however, the liberation of Dieppe on September 1, 1944 is very well documented - no battle took place that day. I therefore scrapped that idea altogether, and just went with the end of that scene.

As a point of interest, I actually did export some footage I was going to use for the battle. It included the following shots:

• A pan over the rural field, over which I was going to place an overlay to depict a tank moving.
• Similar pans over the field, showing French civilians cheering on the Canadian soldiers.
• Some careful camera-work on the Wild West Travelling Vehicle set, showing Walter Sears jumping down from what we presume to be the tank.
• A first-person view of what we presume to be the tank's main gun firing, using the "Kill Zombie" scene with the rocket launcher. The camera here was carefully positioned so that only the backdrop and the firing of the rocket were visible.
• Several explosion and death scenes with actors in German soldier uniforms. ;)

The scene was going to include music from "Art of War".

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