Rough Cut

on Monday 1st Feb we handed in our rough cut of our Thriller opening. This is what we had developed so far...

Mr Mickey advised us on what could be improved for our final cut. We had some shots of trees prepared but hadnt had the time to sift through and edit them in time, so we ended up with just the shots of the girl in the order we'd chosen. We were advised to put our last shot, a long shot of the girl abanonded on the forest floor, at the start, so the viewer moved in on the situation rather than working from close-up first.
One of the shot we had edited was at a slant angle, so we had to fix it after realising you cant crop the image to an new position. The 'flashback' of the girl sipping wine didnt seem to fit fluently because it was from a different time as the other flashbacks, so we had to re-think wether we would remove this shot and replace the time with others we already had, or if we wanted to re-shoot a different situation such a 'flashback' of the girls body being dropped into it's current position by the intagonist.
The idea was to set the scene of woods, before the girl was introduced, which had not yet achieved but it worked well with the new plan to lead on to the L.S of the girl.
Another problem we came across was that one of our member of the group was away who has the music and the rendered version on thier USB, so the roughcut only had diagetic sounds. The sounds of the crows and morning birds gave me the idea to raise the volume when the music plays so the situation feels more real to the audience.