Hello, I'm new to fan editing and I wanted to get a feel for something, specifically in a TV-to-Movie context. I'm working on a project using a season of a show with 22 episodes as a basis.
Minor spoilers ahead for Gotham if you haven't seen it.
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Gotham, particularly in its first season, follows a case-of-the-week format, being a crime drama. However, it also has a running storyline about Gotham's organized crime underworld that spans from the premiere to the finale, and this storyline sinks its way into the cases of the week at times. I've been trying to distill the best parts of this running mob storyline and make a film that follows it, with some minor side plots for flavor, and in the interest of doing more with the subsequent seasons once this project is done.
The question I wanted to ask is how editors typically take a lot of content and bake it down. Do you try to fit everything into a three or five act structure, do you just go with your gut and see how the movie flows? And as a follow up, if you foresee an edit getting past a 3 hour timeframe, do you consider breaking it into two parts or keeping it as one film?
Minor spoilers ahead for Gotham if you haven't seen it.
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Gotham, particularly in its first season, follows a case-of-the-week format, being a crime drama. However, it also has a running storyline about Gotham's organized crime underworld that spans from the premiere to the finale, and this storyline sinks its way into the cases of the week at times. I've been trying to distill the best parts of this running mob storyline and make a film that follows it, with some minor side plots for flavor, and in the interest of doing more with the subsequent seasons once this project is done.
The question I wanted to ask is how editors typically take a lot of content and bake it down. Do you try to fit everything into a three or five act structure, do you just go with your gut and see how the movie flows? And as a follow up, if you foresee an edit getting past a 3 hour timeframe, do you consider breaking it into two parts or keeping it as one film?