Analysis Of Rough cut

A rough cut is when you put all your footage together in order cutting the clips down to the pieces you need, this is put together simply with no transitions, effects or sound. When making our rough cut we kept to this by not adding any effects or transitions or non - diegetic sound it just had a rough understanding of what our thriller will be like and help us figure out what effects and transitions we want to put into it. In my opinion the rough cut helped a lot and it needed when making a film sequence as it helps so you don't get confused with all the footage at once and instead put it together in a more simple way. We did make some mistakes however if we didn't make a rough cut we may not have realised these mistakes if we went straight into it.



To start our rough cut we had to take all our footage cutting down the clips to the relevant bits that didn't show any mistakes and we cut it so that we knew that it would fit smoothly with the other clips. We had to watch all the footage were some showed a lot of mistakes and retakes which were quiet funny to watch back, and we had to pick the ones that we found went best. When putting all the footage together we needed to make sure that there wasn't terrible mistakes so it didn't look too unrealistic. We was quiet proud of how our footage turned out although we did think without any effects or transitions it looked rather boring and silly and very unrealistic.



However completing a rough cut before going straight into editing really helped us come up with idea's when putting transitions and other sounds in it also made us realise mistakes we had made when filming for example like coming out of continuity at points in the footage were we cut out however if we went straight in for the kill we probably wouldn't have noticed these little mistakes until  finishing up, this also made us think about titles and Idents and come up with idea's for the titles and how we was going to show them and how long overall we wanted the titles and Ident to last.



Overall i think a rough cut is necessary when editing clips together and making a video in order for the completed bit of footage to be effective and at its best standard.