09-13-2017, 11:58 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-14-2017, 12:31 AM by FaceInTheCrowd.)
(09-13-2017, 09:10 AM)wesen Wrote: 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?
There's a general one script page per screen minute rule that almost never comes in exactly right. So scripts are usually written with extra scenes in case a scene or two isn't as long on screen as expected, and during edit the director decides which "extra" scenes to omit. Most of the time the deleted scenes are the ones that have the least impact on the story, but sometimes a scene is deleted because it might cause viewers to expect the story to go places it isn't intended to go.
I have worked on some other productions where script revisions got handed out every day because they didn't like the scenes they got the day before. I never saw this happen on a Grimm shoot, but then again I was there for only a few episodes a season.