Rough Cut- Miss Miller

Whilst editing our opening scene our group created a rough cut of our final piece. A rough cut is important to consider when making a media product as it gives you a chance to share your work with others to gain constructive criticism from them and then to help make it better. The rough cut should be similar to the final piece so the audience can give their feedback and opnions in a fair way. If our group had not of made a rough cut and sent our final piece of without any feedback, then the clip may of not shown its full potential as 

there could of been many improvements to be made.

Audience feedback is extremely important to consider as it gives you a chance to get an honest opinion on our opening sequence. As well as the feedback being honest, it is also un-baised as it is coming from someone outside of our group in whom has never seen before. The audience can give you productive critisicm to help us improve on elements that may not be working well. Audience feedback allows us to understand what the audience exactly want to see, allowing for us to improve it and make it suitable for the audience.

When showing our rough cut, we did it through the use of a presentation. My group and I created a presentation, we showed this in our class. This allowed them to get a better understanding of our clip, so they would then be able to give us some more constructive feedback. The presentation included:

- What our group narrative was

- How we decided on the narrative 

- What our final narrative is

- Our individual narratives

- What we wanted to create, adding how we think we did

- How conventional it was to the thriller genre

We then presented this to the class along with showing them our rough cut of our thriller sequence. When receiving feedback, we were told that we had many strengths and weaknesses. Our strengths included:

- Conventional to the thriller genre- low key lighting

- Good variety of shots used- high angles, low angles and handheld etc.

- Shot distances- Close ups, long shots, extreme close ups

- Good use of sound- builds up tension and suspsense.

- Good suspense building- again conventional to the genre

- Use of characters- relating to the audience.

Although we had a lot of strenghts, we did have some weakenesses:

- Not enough credits used

- Same colour of credits throughout- needs to change more/ more variety

- Music the same throughout- Needs to have more changes to build tension.

Because of the feedback that we had recieven and there noticably some weaknesses to our thriller, we then started to think about how we could improve these weaknesses and therefore had to make some changes. An element that we decided to change was the music, we changed it when the scene got more dramatic. For instance, when the girl is running away from the killer, we made the music more sinister and faster to emphasise the situation. We made sure the credits were suitable for the thriller genre and therefore made them more eerie. 

The feedback ultimately will help our group and I with finalising our thriller opening sequence as it has given us an idea of how to improve our clip. We now have an understanding of how the audience will react to our thriller when it has been completed. By changing and adjusting certain elements, we can make our thriller sequence the most effective it can be.