R+P Post 19: Our rough cut

Our rough cut helped us work out exactly which shots we wanted to film in our main shoot. When reviewing our shots at the start of the rough cut it became clear that although certain shots seemed good inside of our own heads and when filming, these shots infact did not look as we expected and ended up being completely scrapped, even in our rough cut. That said, some of these shots we looked to rework and shoot from a slightly different angle in our main shoot.

Another important part of our rough cut was working out exactly how we wanted our voice over and music to sound as we recorded our music and voice over ourselves. Recording the music proved to be far more time consuming than we expected, however recording the instrumental allowed us to record each individual verse, chorus and bridge independently and have full control over how the music would fit with the visuals. Below is our rough cut.

When we finished the editing of our rough cut, we showed a focus group of LGBTQ+ teens for feedback on our rough cut, to integrate into our final product. These faults and improvements are listed below:

• A more concise, yet more authentic voice over
• Script the conflict and conversation between the bullies
• I was in the cereal GoPro shot
• Shoot longer takes to improve continuity
• Improve the consistency of the lighting
• Make the representations of the characters more obvious
• Increase the volume of the music

If we were to do our rough cut again, I would have spent more time grading our footage. This would have given us a good idea of roughly what sort of settings we want to use in our main edit and also allow us to try to pin down a look for our footage. This would greatly decrease the time required to complete our main edit, which is normally a time consuming process.