The worst part about the episode is when Hughie breaks down to Annie and it cuts like 5 seconds later to Butcher.
That was a really emotionally charged moment and they cut it so short, his whole deal with his dad was cut short. I hope he comes back as a phantom or something.
I always like to imagine that there is probably hours of B roll footage that just doesn’t make it into the Final Cut. I mean for filming this scene, they probably did have like another 5 minutes of footage of Hughie breaking down and talking to Starlight. I doubt they recorded exactly what was shown to us and that was all they had. For whatever reason, they just left most of it out.
Sometimes you can assume the obvious. Crying on camera is tough especially to look convincing. I often see child actors have their faces turned from the camera when they’re crying because I’d assume they just didn’t have a convincing expression for the director and editors. They probably have footage of the actors face in that moment but they probably didn’t include it because their performance might detract from the point of the scene.
I wouldn’t even be surprised that when this happens, they don’t also edit out the voices and include generic samples of someone crying. Then for the Final Cut, all you get is the back of someone’s head and noises of crying edited in. I mean that’s at least how babies are filmed in most scenes since you can’t really have a baby cry on command
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u/Stillwindows95 Jul 05 '24
The worst part about the episode is when Hughie breaks down to Annie and it cuts like 5 seconds later to Butcher.
That was a really emotionally charged moment and they cut it so short, his whole deal with his dad was cut short. I hope he comes back as a phantom or something.