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The person given the responsibility of bringing this vision to the reality of Jamaican television was head of Anyhoo Productions Limited, Producer/Director, Tanya Taylor. It was Tanya’s job to assemble the team and ensure all the elements were in place to make Digicel Deal or No Deal a success. The team comprised some of the top videographers in the region as well as other support staff that would rival any world class production team.
“It was less than two months of intense pre-production. Digicel, ATL, Wisynco, Pizza Hut and General Accident believed in New Comm’s ability to take the product and deliver Jamaica’s newest craze. We used the old Studio at the Public Broadcasting Corporation of Jamaica. Mike believed in the studio so we partnered with PBCJ to renovate the space to what we needed to function for the month we were to be in production”.
Choosing a studio in retrospect might have been the easier part of bringing Digicel Deal or No Deal to TVJ. The set design and décor for Digicel Deal or No Deal was done by Michelle Simone Clarke popularly known as Siim. Siim is noted for creating some of the most eye catching sets in Jamaica such as the set for Magnum Kings and Queens of Dancehall, The KFC Quiz Show and was also the art director for Shaggy’s Church Heathen Video.
With the set design in good hands and the studio ready it was now to the hard part, the contestants, Tanya Taylor revealed: “The contestant selection was tricky. With only about 3 weeks to filming, we placed ads in our print partner The Jamaica Observer and on TVJ. From the entries received we, and when I say we I really mean the Godsend Assistant Production Coordinator Sanjay Ramanand, went through every entry received and selected the most interesting responses. From there we invited the applicants and their supporters to a casting session. From that session we selected twenty seven contestants for season one. We then created files on them for The Banker who does his own additional research which he reveals on the show.”
