LFL’s Andi Gutierrez spent several hours answering fan questions over on the Star Wars Rebels sub Reddit on Friday. I’ve picked out a couple of my favourites to post here but please take the source link to read the full thread of what it’s like to work at Lucasfilm and what goes on behind the scenes of The Star Wars Show and Rebels Recon. Andi’s answers are by “deegoots” just like her twitter.
tampering:
Hi Andi, love the work you and the rest of your team do. I think we’d love some insight on how you guys produce your shows.
Example for Recon we can see that your creator interviews for several episodes are taped on the same day and then pertinent clips edited together with your intro, Chopper and Pablo. Do they screen 3-4 episodes for you guys to work ahead on? Do they screen it for just the publicity team or do you watch them with some of the production staff?
Also did you guys know about your namesake characters ahead of time or did the production people make it a surprise for the three of you?
deegoots:A little of both. Since it’s so hard to find time to do interviews with everyone, we’ll sit down and do a chunk of episodes with them at once. Then we can break them apart as needed. We do all of my solo in office stuff the week-of. Chopper bits are a little bit of both. If we have time, we’ll do a few in a week so we don’t have to crunch. I’ve said it elsewhere, but we have a really small team, and our camera/editing guys work insane hours to get all of our stuff made… so we do as much as we can when we can.