Pay Some Attention to the Man Behind the Camera

Daniels: We're Thinking About Who's Filming Dunder Mifflin

YESTERDAY'S OFFICE Convention activities included a press conference with about a dozen cast members and a couple of crew members, including series honcho Greg Daniels. The cast members were very gracious in handling questions both expected and inane, and up until the very end it appeared as if nothing newsworthy would come out of the event. But then Clark DeLeon, of all people, representing Philadelphia Metro, stood to compliment The Office's director of photography on the show's spot-on, documentary-like look and feel and to ask for whom the doc is being shot.

"That's a reveal we have in the back of our heads," Daniels replied. "But it's too soon."

As DeLeon noted in his question, the camera is one of the show's most important characters. It'll be interesting to find out why this office is being filmed and who's doing the lensing.

The convention continues today, but my work was done last night, so I'm home now. What I'll take with me is the memory of how incredibly nice and genuine those actors were. Seeing them behind the scenes laughing and joking not only with one another but also with the foot soldiers from NBC who were there to help coordinate things was a real treat. Dunder Mifflin's Scranton branch may be filled with sad-sack, resentful types who hate their jobs, but the men and women who play them could not be more different than their characters.

Comments

[Anthony]

I've been wondering about the same thing as Clark DeLeon. I suppose it will come in the series' final episode, if they are given that luxury.
Perhaps a two-hour retrospective of spliced-together clips from the series, made to tell a story?