Rough Cut Evaluation

Our Rough Cut was not long enough as we still had roughly 40 seconds to go. Therefore we where going to have to come up with some more footage that will fill in the gap and allow us to further connote the female’s dominance. The title sequence that we had put in for the opening was well positioned however we had picked a inappropriate font to be used with our specific sub genre, therefore we choice Serif Sans as it is a much more simplistic font, that will go with the conventions of a Film Noir better, this will also help the shots flow. We found that making our shots flow was harder than we expected, this was mainly down to our film not being properly edited but because of this there was no rhythm making our piece seem jumpy, this is mainly where tom was taken from the chair and put on the floor and finally put in a sac, these 3 shots needed to be edited smoother, as currently they did not make sense confusing the audience as they watched it. We tried to correct this briefly by making the shot length nearly the same where possible. This is something that we are definitely going to have to amend for our final cut. We also found that using transitions could be a possibility for our final piece, as this would hopefully make some shots flow easier. The diegetic sounds that where on the piece needed to be re done, as we are unable to hear the conversation-taking place out side. We also needed to change around the dialogue at the pool table as the accents used did not suit the aim of creating a Film Noir opening. Non – diegetic music was not added and this is something that we need to think about for our final piece, as it is essential to build tension in a scene. Lighting was also a problem in our first attempt, as all of our indoor shots where way to dark; we need to over come this by reshooting or changing the contrast on premier. Lastly I felt that there was not enough bold shots like Close Ups and P.O.V.’s used to capture the female’s dominance and help connote her significance over the males.

To sum up, my rough cut taught me that I needed to change some things with my piece. Also for things like editing where shot lengths and fluency is a very important part that I hadn’t thought of, this makes the piece seem very jumpy and unprofessional. Also about how important my research was, as we needed to go back and look at conventions of Film Noir that we can integrate back into the next 40 seconds of the opening, this would also help connote the Femi Fatal dominance being a very important convention of Film Noir.

To sum up, my rough cut taught me that I needed to change some things with my piece. In particular editing where shot lengths and fluency is a very important part that I hadn’t thought of, which makes the piece seem very jumpy and unprofessional. ( comment on a specific part of the opening so it is in context) is thereanythong else about the rough cut that you learned

I realised how important my research was, as we needed to go back and look at conventions of Film Noir so that we can integrate back into the next 40 seconds of the opening different elements, showing how the genre is not only familiar, but also different; this would also help the audience identify with the opening and connote the Femme Fatale dominance being a very important aspect of it