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Annette Gordon's avatar

Every word, completely true. My life on rinse and repeat!

All the things they didn't shoot on location which somehow becomes the fault of the edit.

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Rob McCabe's avatar

Glad to hear it resonates, Annette. Well, maybe glad is the wrong word! I feel your pain.

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Annette Gordon's avatar

I’m grateful to be working, on the other hand, arghgggh!

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Brian Hill's avatar

When a commissioning editor views the rough cut of a film in which people speak different languages (including English) and are subtitled, and then asks you to recut the film so we are never more than five minutes away from someone speaking English, what circle of hell is that? Obviously they were told that wouldn’t be happening.

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Rob McCabe's avatar

Think we need to add a 10th Circle - Idiocy

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Pete McCabe's avatar

You had me at “like a cursor with eye bags” x

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Christopher D. Brosnan's avatar

After reading this I can, with hand on heart, say that I feel your pain! :)

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Tom K's avatar

This made me laugh and want to cry at the same time. So much pain and memory and you capture it so well. That phrase ‘make it more punchy’ is one of the most overused and unworkable bits of direction in TV. The scourge of every edit team. Keep up the great writing!

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Ian Lloyd's avatar

From dreaming of working with wood to becoming a cursor with eye bags....genius Rob, all so disturbingly, shoulder-slumpingly accurate...I'm off to research lathes.

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