It’s a cool ‘deleted scene’ now. I admire the crafting to get the whole series into a very believable runtime to the point that it feels like a real movie. Anytime I face cutting down to fit a runtime…
I LOVE cutting to a specific runtime. It makes me get more creative and ruthless. You can always fudge it a bit at the end. I kind of wanted this down to 2:20, which was V1. Then I moved the goalpost to 2:30 because it would be better a little longer.
I always have a runtime goal on anything I work on.