jblum's Journal

The best thing about revisiting Time Rift is realising just how much fun we had. Even after I'd bungled my romance with AC, we're still there laughing and carrying on on-set, with Cary keeping us all in good spirits.

The worst thing is seeing how much we didn't know what the hell we were doing. We were surprisingly professional and copeful, but still making basic errors of judgement like thinking we could get away with vast amounts of background noise, and only re-recording some of the lines.

And I've just had to wade through Episode 2 Scene 7A: twenty-two takes across two shots of the most hideous exposition known to man, drunkenly shot and mumble-mouthedly delivered by yours truly with a rapidly slipping grip on my lines. I swear I was clean-shaven when we started and stubble-ridden by the end. Badly written, badly acted, badly shot, badly logged (perhaps perceptively, I didn't label any of the takes on these shots as "best"), and the EDL page was missing so I had no idea which takes out of this morass I needed to retrieve.

Only about half of this scene even made it to the rough-cut... large chunks were re-shot with inserted close-ups, and what was left was split into two bits with something hopefully more interesting between them. But the original was nearly three minutes long, and lurched from topic to topic in a way which even at the time I knew was desperate and amateurish. I'm including the un-re-edited version in the Deleted Scenes segment as a warning to future generations. But don't worry, Aaron, you won't have to clean it up!