The light at the end of the tunnel Yip says that time was already very short when he took on the job of designing the costumes for Snow in August. This is a completely new dramatic form, requiring a lot of polish, one whose actual shape will not be known until the end, "but if you are still figuring costume stuff out at that point then you're dead meat!"
千帆盡處見兒家葉錦添表示，當他接下《八月雪》服裝設計時，時間已經有點急了，這是一齣全新的戲，不斷磨合，不到後期雛形根本出不來，「到那時候再做就死定了。」