Hiya,
I'm editing a project right now, it's a 22 minute pilot to air on a website (risky already, I know, so don't even say it). In the middle of the episode there is a photo montage, which is a sequence of "behind-the-scenes" black and white photos on an adult film set set to kind of groovy, bassy, 70s-homage music.
The question is: how many seconds/minutes of this would you sit through before you got bored and stopped watching it? I am in a huge argument with the director over this and I'd like to get some non-biased opinions. I have a hunch, but I'm not going to say yet because I don't want to influence your answers.
For the sake of this hypothetical, let's say you have watched and have been paying attent to the episode up to the point of the montage (about 10 minutes) and have been at least mildly entertained by it.
And BTW yes, the photo montage has to be there, so zero seconds/cut it completely is not an option in this case. I would probably be shot if I came back to him with that.
I'm editing a project right now, it's a 22 minute pilot to air on a website (risky already, I know, so don't even say it). In the middle of the episode there is a photo montage, which is a sequence of "behind-the-scenes" black and white photos on an adult film set set to kind of groovy, bassy, 70s-homage music.
The question is: how many seconds/minutes of this would you sit through before you got bored and stopped watching it? I am in a huge argument with the director over this and I'd like to get some non-biased opinions. I have a hunch, but I'm not going to say yet because I don't want to influence your answers.
For the sake of this hypothetical, let's say you have watched and have been paying attent to the episode up to the point of the montage (about 10 minutes) and have been at least mildly entertained by it.
And BTW yes, the photo montage has to be there, so zero seconds/cut it completely is not an option in this case. I would probably be shot if I came back to him with that.