Cutting a series without making it samey
Thirty episodes of the same bowl, and the small rules that kept them from blurring together.
7 min read
A series needs a shape people recognise and enough change that they come back. For Slow Wheel the shape was simple: open on the hands, close on the shelf.
Change one thing an episode
Each episode was allowed one new idea in the edit: a different music cue, a time-lapse, a mistake left in. Never two.
