R+P Post 19: Our rough cut

We will upload the footage from our test shoot and using Adobe Premiere Pro, compiling the best takes into a rough cut video. The rough cut will be based on the timings of our animatic, although we plan to alter these slightly during editing, as some of the timings are not suitable in practice. For our rough cut, we will include titles, soundtrack, sound effects and dialogue to make it as similar as possible to how our final opening sequence should look. It will allow us to see if our camera and editing techniques are effective for our main shoot and able to connote the genre well. During the editing process, we must consider continuity principles and make sure that none of our shots break the 30 degree rule or the 180 degree rule.

Reflections: The rough cut was an important stage of the editing process, allowing us to try new ideas with the shots we planned to use and visualise if the sequence worked as a whole. Directors produce rough cuts to allow shots to be re-ordered, removed, shortened, or otherwise changed. Often, there are plot holes (missing shots/segments which require that new scenes be filmed) as was the case in our test shoot. We plan to film more scenes of the inside the house so that the shots in the split screen are all completely different.

For our actual opening sequence we have learnt many things that must be changed, including issues with camera framing, actors movements, background noise, and the lengths of some takes. The rough cut has enabled us to notice any mistakes in filming as well as editing. After having spoken to our teachers about the rough edit, we wrote a list of changes we would make in order to have the appropriate shots for our main shoot.