Back after a few weeks away, and straight to the studio. No time to build up the boards and stencils that arrived for Dent: instead, I went straight into writing and content review on Longridge.

I got my head down on writing content so the team could review my style and give me some pointers. I managed a first draft of about a third of one course; I need to wrap up the rest by next Wednesday.

I also reviewed the interview films that had been shot whilst I was away. The team kindly provided transcripts and timestamped footage to go over, and I had to work out what should go into the final film. It’s hard to do this solely from a transcript - you end up finding that intonation is key, or that sometimes the way somebody’s said something just flows more naturally in a different take. So I sat down with the footage and Hitfilm and hammered out a couple of ‘assembly’ edits - nothing final, and they wouldn’t contain any of the cutaways or B-roll that the video team had for the final film - but enough to get a feel for if the final edit we were hoping for would flow. I know I could have just supplied a script or a cut-list, but it helped reassure me that what I hoped was possible would work.

In a spare moment, I fixed a firmware bug on 16n that had been nagging a lot of people for quite a while. No great breakthrough on my part; instead, a well-framed bug report suddenly made the issue very clear, and half an hour in an editor got the bug fixed. Now I’m just finding people to help me confirm there’s been no regression, and then I’ll try to package that up into a release in the coming weeks.