How Our Rough Cut Helped Us

How our rough cut helped us in the production of our opening thriller sequence:

Before we finished editing our opening sequence we made a rough cut. This was to help get feedback and to see what we needed to change to make the opening seem like a thriller opening sequence. Using the feedback from the rough cut has helped us the editing of the opening sequence. One of the comments we got said that the first few seconds didn't flow properly so when we went back to start editing the rest of the sequence we changed the first few seconds so that it flowed properly.
We've learnt from producing the opening sequence that if we get a chance to film and edit again we will make sure that we leave plenty of time to film and edit because from doing the rough cut we saw that we didn't leave enough time to re-film any shots that we didn't like. As a group we should think more about the positioning of the camera and what the characters look like from the audiences perception. Getting feedback from our target audience (15) has made us more confident and helped us alot to be able to make our final opening sequence production.
After analysing our rough cut, we found that we should've left plenty of time before starting to record each shot and after recording each shot as some of the scenes we filmed had the ending or beginning cut off, therefore some of the shots were unable to convey the full story.