ABSTRACT
Budgets are constantly being adjusted downwards, which means increased pressure on those of us who are paid to make artistic decisions, which we all know can take time. Handing the production team a 'to time' cut makes the arithmetic simple, whatever goes back in causes something else to be cut. Further processes outside the edit suite include: two day prep dub, one day dub with a dubbing mixer to finalise the sound, and a half-day with a colour grader. As we can appreciate, the edit suite with its driver accounts for a sizeable part of the programme's budget. Turning to Rock n' Chips, this was an all location shoot with no audience recordings to deal with and, consequently, the editing process was much more straightforward. Rock n' Chips, A 90-minute comedy drama written by much-missed John Sullivan that took the characters from Only Fools and Horses back to 1960 to find Del, Trigger, Boycie, and the res.
