On Wednesday night I edited together the scene where we first meet Dr Crabtree. It was late when I finished it so I went to bed without really looking at it, just vaguely pleased with myself that I had one more scene I could pass across to Daz to start working on ideas for the score.

Yesterday morning Lucy wanted to watch what I’d done, so I showed her. Her reaction surprised me a little. ‘Ugh! I can’t watch that! What happened? It’s too fast!’

I watched it back, and realised that she was right. The scene was flaccid, lifeless and completely lacked emotion. And to a certain extent it didn’t make a lot of sense. I went to work in a huge depression.

I couldn’t work out where the spark had gone. I … Read More »