Peter Roberts: from Gloss to The Dark Horse...

Interview – 2016

Award-winning editor Peter Roberts runs post-production company RPM Pictures, and has worked on a wide range of TV shows and films. His TV credits include Gloss, God, Sreenu and Me, Legend of the Seeker and Artsville. His film work includes The Dark Horse, Hip Hop-eration, Juniper and 50 Ways of Saying Fabulous.

In this ScreenTalk interview, Roberts talks about:

How a small white lie helped launch his editing career
Working in "a dark dungeon" while cutting beloved soap Gloss
Editing some of the show's cliffhanger finales
Creating romances and backwards flying seagulls for the off-beat God, Sreenu and Me
Using digital trickery to simulate a drought, after the rain-plagued shoot of movie 50 Ways of Saying Fabulous
Trying to redeem a potentially unlikable lead in The Most Fun You Can Have Dying
Coping with huge amounts of footage while editing The Dark Horse
How a projector meltdown at an early screening highlighted that the film was going to work
Wanting to show aging in a positive light with Hip Hop-eration
The impact of changing technology on editing

This video was first uploaded on 16 February 2016, and is available under this Creative Commons licence. This licence is limited to use of ScreenTalk interview footage only and does not apply to any video content and photographs from films, television, music videos, web series and commercials used in the interview.

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Just as we were entering the big last scene, I kind of woke up and the projector went zip-zip-zip. The whole thing died. I'm thinking 'oh shit!' And the lights came on . . . I looked around and most of the audience were in tears.
– Peter Roberts on early audience reaction to The Dark Horse, after a projector malfunction

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