Rough Cut Viewing #3 | Development

After our last tutorial, we made some of the improvements suggested but we also decided against some of them. We made the change that Simon asked, but if we decided that it didn't work for the production, we kept it the same. Or if we decided it did work and looked a lot better than we made the change.

After editing the sound and making those changes, we had another tutorial with Simon, here was his feedback from the session:

The main change Simon wanted to be made was to add more music into the scenes. This will lift the video and will make it seem more like a sitcom than a drama, which is what it feels like in this current moment. We have a composer editing music together for us, so when we get those files I can add them to the sequence. However, if we find we need more music to add to the scenes we'll find royalty free music, as I'm not sure they will be enough time for him to make new music tracks for us.
He wants to see a lot more of the iPad screen, so when we do the reshoot we can arrange to shoot those clips, and add them in afterwards. We still need to do a reshoot for scene 11 & 17, so the producer needs to start planning and scheduling this with the actors.
These changes suggested are all good ones, so we will make these changes and so how this effects the show. One of the changes I don't think will work is cutting out Dean's line "he wouldn't do such a thing". I understand why this would make the scene quicker and why it needs to be quicker, but the dialogue won't make any sense, and there isn't any other way around this.