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Thursday, May 3, 2018
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
ARTS

ACROSS
1 Liberty __
5 Troublesome
types
9 Cleaning tool
13 Any number
15 River through
Florence
16 Natural analog of
sonar
18 Toyota RAV4,
e.g.
19 The best policy,
so it’s said
20 VW Golf model
21 Fronded plant
23 Small cube?
25 Facebook __
28 SDI weapon
31 Jazz singer Laine
32 Ones who have
class?
35 Developing,
biologically
36 Old General
Motors model
43 Literary award
with a spaceship
logo
44 Head for the hills
45 Nothing new
47 Billiards concern
49 Phantasy Star
game maker
50 Big name in
ATMs
51 Egret habitats
58 Braggart’s
abundance
59 Ice cream
features found, in
a way, in this
puzzle’s circles
62 Hard to control
63 Harley-Davidson
Museum city
64 Cholesterol nos.
65 Presently
66 Scrip items

DOWN
1 Hats like Maurice
Chevalier’s
2 Intestinal
3 Director with
three Oscars
4 Welsh : llyn ::
Scots : __
5 “__ your side”
6 “The Wind in the
Willows” figure

7 They know the
ropes
8 Schism group
9 Wasn’t used
10 Squirm
11 “And __ thing ... ”
12 Fish that sound
good in Spanish
14 Density symbol,
in physics
16 Like bodybuilders
17 Right at sea?
22 Book before Esth.
24 Hessian pronoun
26 Crime movie
genre
27 Name on a
museum wall
28 When some
news shows
begin
29 Sugar source
30 Half of a call-and-
response game
33 Whopper
34 “Very nice!”
36 Area around the
altar
37 Bent (over)
38 Asian appetizer
39 Remote control
abbr.

40 Cause of a 
paper weight
increase
41 Brightened
42 Tries for a better
price
46 New Mexico
county bordering
Colorado
48 Punk rock
subgenre
52 Diva Gluck

53 Dust Bowl
deficiency
54 WWII invasion
city
55 Cut
56 Spanish “that”
57 Like many laps
60 Pitcher Young
and painter
Twombly
61 Presidential
nickname

By Jeffrey Wechsler
©2018 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
05/03/18

05/03/18

ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE:

RELEASE DATE– Thursday, May 3, 2018

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

Released this April on Amazon 
Prime, 
the 
documentary 
series 
“All or Nothing: The Michigan 
Wolverines” follows the University’s 
football team from their spring trip to 
Rome to the 2018 Outback Bowl. The 
series offers glimpses of the lives of 
student athletes like leaders Rashan 
Gary, Karan Higdon and the various 

quarterbacks as well as the enigmatic 
Coach Jim Harbaugh. Amazon paid 
the University over $2 million for 
the rights to create this must-watch 
series for fans of Michigan football. 
Recently, The Daily had a chance 
to speak with director Jim Jorden 
about tackling this ambitious project.
The Michigan Daily: How did 
the idea for this documentary come 
about?
Jim Jorden: Amazon has a series 
with the NFL called “All or Nothing.” 

A couple years ago, the first one came 
out with the Arizona Cardinals. 
When I watched that show, I 
thought, “Wow, this would be a 
perfect distribution model for college 
football.” Usually these shows run 
once a week as the season goes on or 
maybe a one-hour episode when the 
season’s over. This was eight one-
hour episodes that came out half a 
year later. As a storyteller, you have a 
chance to look at all the material for 
the whole season and shape the story 
in a special way. And with eight hours, 
you have the time to tell a really good 
story. I thought we should try to do 
this for college football. I arranged 
a meeting with Amazon. They 
were interested in three programs: 
Alabama, UCLA and Michigan. 
Amazon liked Michigan best based 
on the alumni, winningest team of 
all time and how interesting Coach 
Harbaugh is, especially as a dad with 
four young kids. But for covering 
college, they’re kids. The thing you 
always have to keep in mind is in the 
NFL, they’re pros and it’s a job, but in 
college they’re students. A big pitch 
for the project was wanting to put the 
“student” back in student athlete and 
“college” back in college football. We 
really tried to show the whole college 
experience.
TMD: What were the logistics 
of covering such a large team and 
organization?
JJ: I helped start “Hard Knocks” 
back in 2001 with the Baltimore 
Ravens. 
When 
we 
did 
“Hard 
Knocks” each year with the NFL and 
HBO, we would come in with a small 

army and take over. The college 
setting is so intimate, so we wanted 
to be a fly on the wall with a small 
group. We only had two cameras and 
relied heavily on Michigan’s internal 
camera staff to help us with footage. 
We didn’t have a big crew at all. And 
when you’re shooting over the course 
of a whole football season, you don’t 
have to shoot so much stuff. We have 
sayings like, “don’t shoot everything, 
shoot the right thing.” Then when 
we edit, “work with what you have, 
not what you don’t have.” We didn’t 
want to shoot a ton of stuff or bother 
people, just be at the right place at the 
right time and document the right 
things. We wore Michigan gear. We 
really were a part of the Michigan 
team. We’ll all be fans of Michigan 
forever now because you get to know 
everybody, and you understand 
where they’re coming from.
TMD: Did you use your own game 
footage?
JJ: We tried to never use 
anything shot by a network. We shot 
everything ourselves because we 
shot with a different style. I found 
that shooting sports comes down 
to three things: lenses, angles and 
film speed. You can have the same 
camera standing next to the same 
person, but if they’re shooting at 
different speeds it looks different. If 
one person’s down lower or higher, it 
looks different. We tried to capture 
the games in a way that TV doesn’t 
do: A lot closer, a lot more personal. 
We wanted it to feel like you’re on the 
sidelines.
TMD: A lot of the intimate 

interviews happened in cars as the 
subjects were driving around Ann 
Arbor. Why did you choose this set 
up?
JJ: One thing that Amazon was 
really keen on was never having an 
interview where anybody spoke in 
the past tense like I’m doing now. 
Sometimes in this show, you’ll see 
really well lit interviews where it’s 
taking place after the actual filming 
is done. Amazon didn’t want to have 
that and there wasn’t time to take out 
of someone’s schedule for interviews 
like that. We just filmed it on the 
fly, while we’re going around. A car 
was a great time to talk to somebody 
because we’re just driving, they can 
just talk as they drive and it’s not 
distracting. A lot of times there’s 
interviews with guys just sitting in 
the field. We were just trying to get 
everybody right in the moment.
TMD: Something that really 
struck me were the class differences 
between players and, essentially, 
why they play. There was a sharp 
contrast between Rashan Gary and 
his mother eating at Red Lobster, 
while Wilton Speight and his 
girlfriend ate out at Black Pearl. Was 
this comparison intentional? And 
were there other greater themes you 
wanted to convey?
JJ: We just followed people around 
wherever they naturally wanted to 
go. We weren’t from Ann Arbor so 
for me there wasn’t any difference 
between restaurants. 

Jim Jorden talks 
football and film

MEGHAN CHOU
Summer Senior Arts Editor

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