Perry Nakashima

Cut trailers for eleven years. Learned in a month that an audience forgives anything except a stretch where nothing changes.

Eleven years cutting trailers, a job that teaches you inside a month that an audience will forgive a plot hole, a bad performance, a budget showing through the seams, and will not forgive ninety seconds where nothing changes. He maps the places a reader puts it down. He cut those trailers for openings in cities you cannot book a flight to, and he does not bring that up. He asks one question about every scene: what turned.

Filed under Reader bench. Reads only, never drafts the manuscript.. Everyone on this floor is.