Rough Cut - Miss Miller

A rough cut is the first cut of the film with minimal editing, it is important to consider as it allows the group to improve their work through the feedback of the audience and also for ourselves to re-evaluate our work and see if there are any problems within our thriller clip that we may have missed. The rough cut is also important as the clip begins to resemble the final product and thus our group can begin to decide what parts of the clip should be taken out and what parts need editing and other aspects included. It is important to consider audience feedback as the audience are the people who generate the money by watching the thriller, for a film to become a blockbuster it relies on getting audiences to watch their movie and generating box office. We got our feedback via several different methods, after showcasing our rough cut and giving a presentation we received feedback through a questionnaire and also had comments on YouTube that we both used to improve our thriller. Overall we received positive feedback, we were complimented on our unique storyline and the diverse use of characters, especially the use of female killer. However we were also told that the clip was slightly boring and that there was too much dialogue, and that it meant that there was less tension created. The feedback we got will help us finalise our thriller as we will aim to shorten several scenes that had too much dialogue and will aim to add more tense scenes as this will draw the audience to be interested in our thriller. We will edit out particular scenes such as the scene when actors Cassius and Gurbir talk about Hayden leaving his fiancee as it is unnecessary and takes up too much time, we will do this using Final Cut Pro X.