09-13-2017, 01:25 PM
(09-13-2017, 09:10 AM)wesen Wrote:(09-10-2017, 10:44 AM)FaceInTheCrowd Wrote: Shooting for the first episode of a season typically began in the first week of August for an end of October airdate, so three months from start of shoot to airdate, give or take a week. By the end of the season, that lead time would be down to about two months (a typical shoot was eight days long and they aired seven days apart). Mid-season hiatus and occasional preemptions probably helped a lot for delivering episodes on time.
I don't know how far in advance of shooting the scripts were locked. They could have been revising them through the cast read-throughs right up to first the day of shooting. I do know that I never saw last-minute rewrites being distributed during shoots, which was unusual compared to other productions I've been on. Most of the shooting scripts I saw had no changes marked on them other than scene cross-offs, which I think means that every script had an extra scene or two that they would shoot if they had time and decide whether or not to use later, or if time was short would just not shoot.
Can I ask, since you seem to have some inside scoop in the way things work behind scenes, were the deleted scenes deleted because the show creators wanted to change the storyline or was it due to time constraints?
From what I know from relatives in the industry. They aren’t going to shoot scenes to change the story. A few might. Given the cost of production for a minute of tape to be printed. It’s most likely for time constraints. Not for script editing. Editing a script is a lot cheaper than editing filmed or taped scenes.
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