Does it work?

However many times you make the film - imagining and sketching it out, writing and re-writing, selling the idea and persuading people to be involved; finding money and organising it, going out and shooting it - it all comes down to this: closing the door of the edit room and sitting down to watch the thing unfurl at twenty-five frames per second. However many other times you have to do it, this now is where the film is really made - and all the decisions you have made up to this point will be vindicated or found out. Just underneath the pleasure and interest of the process - the hundreds of possible editing choices and the enjoyable debates they occasion - is one overarching question: does it work? As Simon, our editor would say: ‘don’t worry - there’s something we can do about that.’ But we do worry.

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