Rough Cut - Miss Georgiou

Chloe Eustace

Rough Cut

'The Hunted' - Original Rough Cut

Below is the Rough cut that we created as part of our group, we uploaded this opening sequence to YouTube in order to get some comments from people so that we can decided what we should make better.

Introduction

Audience feedback is important to a production that is created because it is important for a production creator to have listened to their audience and what it is that they want out of film or scene, and the best way to do this is to show people the rough cut of your film or scene and then get honest feedback from people in a variety of differently ways. This allows time for the production company to take other peoples view into consideration and re develop certain points of the film or re edit where their audience thinks is necessary, in turn creating the best film or scene for a variety of different audiences

I received feedback from my rough cut by uploading the video to YouTube in order to get some honest feedback and comments from people I don't know so that I can take their ideas and thoughts in order to make my thriller production better. I also received feedback from other people in the class by showing it to a group of 20 people and had them give some feedback and their thoughts. The feedback from them was good and useful because I took there feedback and made sure that I made them improvements to my rough cut as long as it fitted because I have a key interest in the audience thoughts and opinions. I could have provided questionnaires to people because this would have been another way to get some honest feedback, and ideas from other people to make my production better that I may not have originally thought about.

Positive Comments

Storyline: Most people said that the storyline was easy to follow and that it was obvious from our thriller opening sequence that the main script was that the girl was being hunted and that something bad was going to happen.

Setting: There was a comment to us on the setting and how it was a good place to choose in order to create and opening sequence. It was a good setting because it is creepy, dark and in a forest, this is conventional to a thriller film and creates tension and enigma for the audience keeping them hooked to the opening sequence and want to watch the rest of the film.

Camera Angles: There was a comment that noted that the variety of Camera angles that we used were good. We didn’t just use the simple zoom in and zoom out, because we used panning of the character and a variety of point of view shots as well as the use within most of the thriller opening sequence was handheld. Handheld is the most difficult camera angle to use because it can be hard to keep it steady and difficult to get the whole shot. We used a variety of two shots and different actual angles to include all the characters and get a good look at setting in the scene.

Negative Comments

Sound: When we created our rough cut ready for the general public to see we had a lack of sound within our production, and we knew that we needed to add it in for our final sequence. The comment included that it might not be tense enough music to create the enigma that is needed for a conventional thriller sequence, and there was a lack of sound in general. To improve from this comment we will try to find some better music that will get the best sound and tension hooking the audience making it conventional enough for a thriller film. Then we will add some more effective sounds to the back ground such as small 10 second sounds to get the attention of the audience but at the same time keeping it conventional. There was also a lot of issues with the background sound, as the day we filmed was very windy it made it difficult to hear what the characters are saying and made it a lot harder to edit sound into it, this is why when we come to finishing off our final production and seeing as we were to re film some shots we will make sure that there is less background noise so that it makes it conventional for the audience later on. The sound of the wind makes it difficult for the audience to want to watch the opening sequnce as it is hard to understand and for the audience to build a relationship with a character on the screen if they can t understand and engage with what they are saying.  

Brightness: There was a number of comments judging the way that the shots were too dark, the lighting was too natural as a lot of the shots near to the end of the thriller sequence were so dark that the characters could only barely be seen. From this comment our group discussed it and decided that it would be best to re film some shots because they were just too dark for an audience to see and made it difficult to get the end of the storyline before it jumps into the main film. We also found that some of our shots we could edit so that there was some more natural lighting. I found it useful to change some of the contrast, brightness and colour in order to get the best result. From starting to re edit based on these comments I have found that I could change the contrast to make the shot brighter and add a little bit more coloir to the scene, but even when I did this it was still difficult to see everything that is going on in the scene because the shot is too dark. This was when we decided that we needed to re film the shot in order to get the best outcome and an opening sequence that would be easy for an audience to undertand.

Editing: When we edited our thriller originally we didn’t use any other visual effect other than a jump cut, and this was something that was touched upon from our audience because there wasn’t enough tension created for the audience to want to continue watching and it didn’t really draw an audience in. From this comment we will take it forward to our final production and try to add more creative and not just that but make the jumps from shot to shot realistic and fit in with the film. In our rough cut there is some shots where at the end of it the screen just goes black and doesnt have anything to do with the storyline. This makes it boring for an audience and it also makes it hard for it to make sense thus not getting accross to the auidnece the enigma and tension that a thriller opening sequence should.

Conclusion

This feedback will benefit my production because all of the constructive criticism that I have received will help me to edit what needs to be changed or what hasn’t quite gone to plan. A rough cut of a film is important because listening to other people’s opinions is the best way to make our production better. We discussed as a group some of the comments that we recieved on our thriller sequnce but we had already discussed with other people about how it wasnt conventional enough and how some of the shots werent working. Going back to some of the comments that we recieved on how dark the shots are we decided to chnage a lot of the scenes but still trying to keep the same stroyline. We will change the location but it will be the same setting, we have changed the loacation to a more conventional darker but lighter forest with more trees to make it look different but still try to keep some the same. The rough cut we found wasn't very good, looking back from filming and editing there was a lot that we could have done better so we will change quite a lot from our rough cut now to our final production.