Rough Cut Edit

Return rough cut from Emily Jesson on Vimeo.

When presenting our rough cut edit to the rest of the class they gave us some positive feedback on our good variety of shots, which helped create interest and representations of character types eg. a high angle shot of the victim, presenting them as vulnerable. However, they also told us that we needed to improve both our sound and our main title. Our sound so far consists of continuous music which seems fine, as well as sound stings which we need more of and to improve the timing of. These are significant as they emphasise the fast sequences of shots; creating a greater impact. Also they told us we may need a voice over or  some more dialogue, to help with narrative exposition and also to create a break in the music. The music at the end of our trailer is too sudden so we need to make it gradually more dramatic and reach a crescendo. The font for our main title needs to be changed as it does not fit with the themes in our trailer or conventions of the horror/thriller genre.

Adding a few more shots to establish the narrative is further needed, for example, close up of newspaper clipping and flashback of us at school laughing. Also an authorative voice to do the voiceover the titles to also establish the narrative further. However feedback was highly positive and many key features of our trailer such as effects, flashes and sound stings were commended.

When putting the filming together on pinnacle, we decided to split the scenes of the three characters and integrate them in editing as we are creating a trailer. This is so it creates a more effective result and indicates to the audience that the film is a trailer as it looked like an opening to a film. We did this by integrating the Killer's actions of holiding the knife and scraping it against the wall and sticking victim's photos in the scrapbook to break up the scenes and to indicate to the audience what is going to happen to each victim. Thich makes it appear more interesting and intriguing without giving too much of the story away and creating enigmas.

We felt that some of the shots were too long, so we decided to cut them down and make the editing fast, we felt this would create more of an impact and grab the audience's attention. Also, we didn't want to give away too much of the plot to the audience as we wanted them to go the cinemas to watch the full film to see what will happen to the 'victims' and whether or not the killer will be caught.

Another improvement, we decided on was that we had far too many fades to blacks/whites, this made the trailer appear inappropriate as there was a fade after each shot which didn't make the trailer appear as effective. So we decided to get rid of some fades to black/white, after doing this we felt that this made the trailer flow better and have more of a purpose eg. a white fade before the flashback.