A rough cut is the first draft of what our final opening scene, it roughly resembles the final product but still is not properly edited meaning that it doesnt flow as well as the final product. Our rough cut included all the appropriate scenes which we plan to use in our final product but the editing of the sequence is not at the standard which we aim for in our final opening sequence. Our rough copy should that we need to improve the sound of our sequence to make it build suspense then emphasise shock, we also plan to add fast music during the chase scene to increase the audience's excitement. I also think we need to improve the editing between each frame to make it more conventional to the thriller genre.
I believe our rough cut was extremely important in creating a successful opening sequence as it gave us a clear idea of what specific elements we needed to improve about our opening thriller sequence, it also allowed us to understand if our thriller was successful in evoking emotions and if not how we could improve it to build relationships between the characters and audience.
After producing our rough cut we showed it to many people who are within our target audience category and they gave us feedback on how we could improve it to make a complete opening sequence. I believe this feedback was extremely beneficial towards making our final sequence as within our thriller we aimed to use many elements such as relatable characters and settings to help form a relationship between the characters and audience hoping that this would cause them to emphasise with the protagonists emotions and therefore be more engrossed within the narrative, and our feedback gave us a understanding of whether or not the audience formed this relationship with the characters.
To receive this feedback we presented our rough copy to 20 people of our target audience of 15-25 year olds. Within this presentation we created a powerpoint this powerpoint consisted of a brief outline of our narrative, a slide on how our opening sequence fits codes and conventions of the thriller genre and a couple of slides on how we created our thriller. We then played our thriller opening sequence and asked the audience to fill out a form which stated what they think went well within our thriller, what we could improve and the mark they believe we got out of 60.
The feedback we received from showing our target audience our opening sequence was consistent in the fact that they believed that the overall narrative of our opening sequence was successful and the specific cinematography we used was appropriate and affective but the editing of our clip could be improved to enhance the emotions evoked by characters and narrative. Our feedback gave us a clear understanding that we had to improve the sound within our opening sequence to make our clip more conventional to the thriller genre.
You have provided a fairly good explanation as to why we create rough cuts and how you found it useful to receive feedback; however, you need to state all the feedback you received, both good and bad, and mention how you are going to improve your sequence.
ReplyDelete1) Include all feedback given
2) State how you will make changes and why
3) Make sure you explain why we need feedback before producing the final copy