Rough cut - Miss Miller

In this post I have been asked to discuss my rough cut for my opening sequence. The rough cut involved all the shots that I would be using in my opening sequence and a rough edit. The sounds were also included and the credits. Using a rough cut is important as it allows us to recieve feedback from our target audience, this means that we can make improvements. We believed that our rough cut was very strong as we was quite far into our editing process, this meant it was practically finished. We had to post our rough cut onto youtube so our peers could view it...

Why is audience feedback important to consider?
The feedback that we get from our audience is very important for us to consider, this is because it is an outside and unbiased opinion. Obtaining feedback from our audience will allow us to make changes to our opening sequence in order to improve it. It is also important to consider our audiences feedback as they are in the age group in which our film is targeted at, this makes it even more vital that we consider their comments on our opening sequence.

How we got our feedback...
The first method we used to get feedback was using a powerpoint presentation, this included all the conventions, editing etc that went into our opening sequence, after presenting our powerpoint we showed the class our rough cut. Once the audience had seen our rough cut they was allowed to ask us any questions that they had. They was also given sheets in which they had to comment on what went well and what we could improve on.

Our feedback...
The feedback that we received from out audience was quite positive. From our mark out of 60 we obtained an 47 on average, this means that our rough cut fell in the level 3 grade band. This was only a few off of the band above. To ensure we reach this band we were given the following improvements...
To improve the first minute of our opening scene and making the story more clear.
To make the relationship between the audience and the female victim stronger.

Things that went well in our rough cut were..
The editing used in the execution scene.
The soundtrack that was used to match the editing.
The use of hidden identity with the antagonist.