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Refining scene order

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Refining scene order

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One of the first things that I like to consider during the fine cutting phase is the order of the scenes or ideas in our piece. Are we deploying our best stuff in the best order? Sometimes at this phase I go back to the note card exercise or outlining exercise that we did earlier, and I actually shuffle around those note cards to try to conceptualize different orders for the piece. In this case, our piece is pretty short, and there's not really that many possibilities, but during my valuation I did notice one potential opportunity. Let me show you where it is. When we moved to the scene with John Downey at Downey's restaurant, we've got an interesting line that we could use in a different place to introduce BD. Listen to what I'm talking about. (John Downey: We opened this restaurant in 1982, and in about 1983 BD came through the back door.) Now ignore the audio level. We will fix that later, and remember that we identified this bite way back at the beginning as an interesting place…

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