A rough cut is an unfinished version of a film. A rough cut would be shown to an audience because they are able to give feedback, so that we can improve it further and make it better. The feedback consists of what the audience thinks is good and bad about the film. The bad things which are said will turn into improvements for the film. Getting feedback from the audience and then putting those improvements by adjusting things such as the sound and other editing aspects which will make the film better for the audience. We receive feedback before completing the final copy because it allows to make improvements.
Our group did a presentation to the class and the feedback was written on paper from every person. We looked over all the pages of feedback and made the improvements we could do within the time limit. The feedback had four separate sections. The first section required them to fill in a mark out of sixty of what they thought it would be overall. The second section required them to write what they thought was good about the thriller opening sequence. The fourth and final section was to require them to write other comments that they thought would be fine.
The feedback collected will help us because the audience will give the best improvements and they know what they like and don't like. Most the feedback received considered that we should have sound throughout the whole of our thriller opening sequence as it would be weird if there was sound in one part and no sound in the next, where silence wasn't necessarily needed. To improve this, we would be very particular when choosing the sounds so we will be very selective.
Other feedback was about the font of the credits as these credits did not seem to be conventional to the thriller genre so we decided to change that when finalising our thriller opening sequence. We will use a different font such as the 'chilli' font to make it more conventional to the thriller genre.
Some positive comments was that some of the shots were good. Another positive comment was the fact that we used the stereotypical characters of the thriller genre including the victim and antagonist.
Overall, I believe this will help our group improve our sequence as we will take on their advice and improve our opening sequence taking into consideration the time we have to improve what we can into the sequence. One of the comments would be to include more close up shots, being short of time it means that we were not able to fulfil this improvement. However, within the time we had we could make sure that we had sound throughout the whole clip, making sure that the sound chosen would be necessary for our thriller opening sequence.
