Rough cut post - Miss Miller

Why is a rough cut important to consider?

A rough cut is the first cut of a film, without no or minimal editing. This is an important process in creating our thriller as this allows us to see how our opening is looking so far, this is also an important process as this allows us to receive feedback about our thriller opening, therefore letting us know how to improve our thriller film and what to change in our thriller films, for example what editing techniques to include and how much of each clip to cut.

Why is it important to consider audience feedback?

It is important to consider to audience feedback, as it allows us to find out what the initial ideas of the target audience are about our thriller film, and what they think could be improved in our thriller films, for example if they didn't like a certain part or aspect of our thriller film, we could find that out, and then improve it according to there feedback, this helps us appeal to our target audience more.

How did we collect our audience feedback?

One way in which we collected our audience feedback was through audience feedback forms, these were given out after the presentation of our rough cut, this form included what we mark they think we deserved out of 60, what went well in our thriller opening and then what we could of improved on.

The second way in which we received feedback was by giving a presentation of our inspirations of the narrative, the setting and then the characters, and the reasons why we included them, after that we then received questions about our thriller from the target audience in which we answered appropriately.

What feedback did we receive?

The praise from the feedback we received was mainly about the cutting of our clips, saying that the cutting of each of the clips went well and that we cut them at the correct times, for the correct effect. However we did receive many more improvements that we could make, one of them being that we should increase the amount of effects that we should add, as our editing was basic at that point in time. Another improvement we had to make was improving lighting of the final scenes of our opening scene, as this would make what is going on in the scene a lot more clearer to the audience, however this was an improvement we couldn't make as we had no time to re-film, and it was harder to film as it got darker as we had to rely on natural light because of the setting, and if we was to film it any earlier it would of not had the same night time effect. The other improvement that we received was to add more sound effects, due to this feedback we are now going to find a more sound effects that we could add into our thriller opening however we need to be sure that we don't over use sound effects.