Rough Cut Feedback

Rough Cut feedback from teacher

After our rough cut was done we asked our media teacher for advice on how to take our rough cut further to make the filming we done look finished. The overall response of the rough cut was good and we were assured that we had gotten most of the shots we needed for our opening film. Our teacher gave us four points to develop on.

These were:

1.     To decide which kind of opening sequence we want or film to be.  What we found after the rough cut was that the opening looked confusing as we had a mixture of discrete opening and traditional opening too. After getting this feedback we therefore decided to keep our opening as just a discrete one.

2.     To sort out the order of the footage filmed- and how we want the audience to connect the characters and the places together. What also made the rough cut harder to understand was the order we had the footage in. After watching the rough cut we decided to put it in the order that was both understandable and one that didn’t deter from the discrete theme.

3.     To re-film the Culpeper park sign- and to film it with the JVC camera from different angles. Before the rough cut we had just one image of the park sign that was not really to a symmetrical angle, so we decided to take out the camera again to film this.

4.     Add editing effects. This we had in mind to do straight after the rough cut to make our filming seem fluid and more professional.

Overall the rough cut was a good way to see where to take our film from then on. With someone else’s view and evaluation of the rough cut it gave us fresh ideas from new eyes and so our opening sequence would therefore be much better off.