R & P Post 19: Our rough cut

Essentially, the purpose of a rough cut was to edit the rushes from our test shoot into a 'test version' of our final piece. We felt this would, of course, be extremely useful in order for us (as well as our teachers & peers) to assess for the first time in film whether or not our story ideas would work or were able to be conveyed, whether the location & props worked well and were practical, and also if the sequence was able to meet the brief in providing continuity throughout.

To edit the sequence, our group used the linear editing software Adobe Premiere Pro. I have detailed the benefits of using this particular tool below: (please click to access) 

Part of our updated shot list

Although the group put in as much time and effort as possible, as the test week was set up in order to mimic and help with the main shooting & editing process, in hindsight we acknowledged that we should have spent more time not only when shooting, as most props and our main actress were missing, but also when editing, because there were still noticeable continuity errors.

As a result, we took our teacher's advice and re-planned the opening's storyline & location - producing new documents and an updated shot list due to the story's lack of plausibility and errors with practicality and continuity. Despite this being a huge extra workload and a burden in terms of timing and planning, upon reflection I feel that this was extremely useful as it ensured that we could improve the project outcome and tailored our final piece to audience feedback, as opposed to continuing without thought.

Our test shoot can be accessed by clicking the YouTube video below...