05/22/2025
What emotions arose when OpenText came to us with an exciting new idea that involved wrangling a live animal on set? Fear? Apprehension? A slow building dread leading right up until the moment we yelled action? NO! We were excited! ...but okay maybe some nerves started to pop up, who knows if we’d have a Black Phillip situation on our hands.
Thankfully we had the Toronto Animal Wranglers on our side and Pajamas was quite the opposite of a cinematic personification of Satan. While working with live animals on a set absolutely has its challenges, for example turns out Pajamas was NOT a fan of bleating when asked and often would wander off in search of food and comfort (who hasn’t done that?), but overall the process was smooth and made for an extremely fun and unique couple of shooting days.
Check out our new Customer Story with our Director Kaitlyn Whelan, Producer Tallen Kay and OpenText Director of Marketing Kurtis Thomas. Get all the behind the scenes details of filming one of our favourite projects ever: Goats for OpenText.
Keep an eye on this feed, we will be posting the final Goat videos plus some more behind the scenes content every week for the next few weeks!
Director: Kaitlyn Whelan ()
Producer: Tallen Kay
EP: Kurtis Thomas ()
DP: Callan Langen ()
1st AC: Aman Samra ()
Production Manager: Nicole Quesnel
Production Designer: June Charles ()
Set Dresser: Theresa Hopkins ()
Set Dresser: Pixie Juni ()
Set Dresser: Palmer Wells
HMU: Cheyenne McNeil ()
Gaffer: Brad Scholl ()
Gaffer: Andrew Park ()
Key Grip: Robert Wharry ()
Key Grip: Dillon Freel
Sound: Spencer Seibert ()
Goats: Toronto Animal Wranglers ()
Editor: Tyler Hughes (), Sarah Carlisle
VFX: Ken Cooper ()
Graphics: Evan Bond ()
