Tutorial and Rough Cut Screening

Prior to the first rough cut screening I had a tutorial with Chris to go through the edit.  He watched through the edit and pointed out some problems and things  should think about.

He suggested that i get the POV scene done in time for the screening so that people would get the idea of what were trying to create. He suggested where would be good places to cut and what bits to cut out. He talked about how the start is very slow, nothing seemed to happen until two minutes into the film, this is very long due to the fact that the film is only 10 minutes. So he said the first two minutes should be cut down to one.

The Next day our Director finally came in to watch through the film and give me her opinion on the edit. She seemed to like it and if anything she said she felt the beginning scenes seems to fast and to make them longer. I then felt in an awkward situation about what to do but Chris suggest that i do two edits. One, the directors edit how she wants it and then the second my own edit with how i feel it should be.

I then went through an created a rough cut, as Alli was never in uni i resorted to uploading a rough cut online for her to look through and give me some sort of feedback and guide in the edit. Up to this point it had been difficult and at times when I needed help I had to resort to interrupting Hannah to get second opinions on some effects of scenes that I had played around with. I finally got given some feedback in the form of a word document sent online to me with some notes that Alli thought when watching the edit. I found it very frustrating when I was sat in the editing too with wither groups and their directors there being very interested in the edit and giving genuine feedback and ideas towards the film.

At this stage in the edit I had a rough version of the film in its entirety. Talking through in my tutorial Chris was saying how nothing seems to happen and that it was down to Hannah and I to create some form of jeopardy in the Trip scene to give the film some sort of motion. I had spent a lot of time playing around in After Effects with different effects and sequences but was finding it hard to get inspiration. I managed to meet with Alli and sit with her and I asked her what she, as director, visioned for this trip scene and how she pictured it in her head. The answer I was given was I don't know. This frustrated me as I was spending all this time trying to create the vision for this film without even any guideline to work form and adapt. In my tutorial Chris showed me a silent piece called Bruxelles so I decided I would use this as my inspiration.