A team of coworkers — all working from home with kids, pets, parents, and chaos — is surprised by a Group FaceTime from their boss first thing Monday morning. The big project they thought was dead is BACK, but with different specs, not much time, and no one in the office.

Every day brings new victories and challenges: a scramble to get themselves organized as their calendars fill up with meetings and milestones; brainstorming sessions that go nowhere and everywhere; camaraderie that’s still there but plays out across iMessage, Group FaceTimes, and shared documents instead.

Just when they think they’re making progress, the budget’s cut in half. A burst of creativity, collaboration, and an all-nighter later, they’re back in business. They race to the finish, collaborating in real time on their big presentation. Finally, they’re ready, the client’s on the call and — well, let’s just hope everyone’s wearing pants.

Editorially APPLE WFH was deceptively complex, it was almost like trying to pull off a magic trick, the brief was to make a film that was about the pandemic without it being creatively compromised by it. The director wanted it to feel like all 5 characters were in the same room or at least in the same office. However in order to achieve that we had to craft even the most minor of interactions and because of the nature of the multiple people on screen at the same time we had to be aware of all of their reactions. At first we edited very specific parts but as the job evolved the director would brief either of us and we would just dive into those notes and as a result it was by far the most collaborative and enjoyable commercial experience the editors have had.