Thank you
We took that shot solely because we had a few feet of film to run out and thought it might look cool, we weren't originally planning on putting it in the film. It wasn't a POV, we just filmed the fisheye mirror that was in the locker room, you can see it in the background of the next shot when he comes out of the door and starts to follow her. Personally I didnt see a reason for it to be in the final cut, but I didn't direct or edit, I just produced, so it wasn't up to me.
You never see them actually make the wager, it's revealed later (pool table scene) that they had an ongoing bet to see who could kill another person first, primarily a college student since they are janitors at nearby colleges (ithaca and cornell)
Unfortunately, there was just too much background noise at some locations to the point that it was recorded on the dialogue tracks, so a fairly loud room tone was necessary to make the audio fluid and continuous.
About half of the budget was put towards film stock, processing, and transfer. The rest was food for the entire crew, location fees, props, etc. We didn't have a choice of shooting digital since it is a film based program.
