Rough Cut
There are several stages to editing and the most essential part in my perspective is getting a second opinion on your clip. Rough cuts are essential as they ensure the directors and team members a brief idea of what the clip is going to be based on including whether or not they followed the plan, also canceling out the finalities such as adding in sync credits or titles. Rough cuts enable the audience or team members to shed perspective on the improvements that should be made as well as what went well within the editing process. Also what the group may have missed out within the thriller genre. Audience feedback is very significant as it allows the editors to see what most captures the audiences attention within the clip and how we can use that to create a very emotive scene or clip.
The following task we performed in class advanced our understanding in what we need to develop and make improvements on. The task was to present what you included within your thriller rough cut and how it was particularly conventional to the thriller genre. Also we had to show our rough cut and see how our group and audience members responded by filling out a sheet of negative and positive comments, as well as what we must enhance within the rough cut. Assessing our own project allowed me to see what i need to change in order for it to be more engaging or scary. Many members of the audience gave us positive feedback with average marks of 25-30. The negative comments were mainly focused on the editing and how we should include blood or a more grotesque font to make the clip look edgy. Taking in all these comments my group and i plan to use all the feedback given by adding in the elements mentioned but also keeping some frames within the thriller clip the same. Getting different perspectives on our clip benefited my idea of what fuels the audiences fear, also looking out a wide range of thriller clips enabled me to extract certain ideas from other clips that i could also use. The relevance of improving your rough cut is admissible as it prepares you for your final cut which has to be a better version of your previous edit.
