Rough cut - Miss Miller

A rough cut is the first stage in which the film begins to resemble it's final product. Rough cuts do not flow well and still undergo many changes before the release of the film. - Wikipedia. It is a form of offline editing.

The purpose of us creating a rough cut was to allow us to gain feedback from our peers on aspects of our thriller that were weak; so we could improve on those areas. It also allowed us to realise and notice if our work had clarity especially with the editing. As we made some mistakes in the editing production. 

The feedback we recieved to help us improve was to make the acting better, clearer narrative and less use of jerky handheld camera. But we were told that we created the element of suspense and the sound was effective.

However to improve on these weak areas we willl firstly improve the script. Meaning actors will speak, more dialogue. As there wasn't much in the rough cut. So this will improve acting and allow the narrative to be more understandable.

   Also to make the narrative clearer, I will include the killer in it. As the identity was hidden throughout, this is a good convention in a thriller. However, the audience will get confused if they don't see the killer. So we decided to add that in. 

  We also re-filmed the jerky handhelds parts to make the frame more still and clearer for the audience to watch. We did the handle camera by purpose. However, again the convention went to far and should of been kept to a minimum. To let the audience understand the narrative better.

All this feedback has allowed us to know what we need to improve on. And change our perspective to what the audience see. As they don't understand our vision they only know what they see.

List of all feedback

+ve

-good eerie sound

-good location

-created tension and suspense

-created mystery

-ve

-better acting needed

-quite confusing

-didn't understand narrative 

-camera too jerky