Rough cut

Our rough cut was primarily for us to gage an idea of what we wanted our final cut to look like. We added the clips which we had decided we wanted to be involved in our final cut, so that we were able to see what they would look like when moving into each different section.When doing this, we came across different problems and realised there was a lot that needed to be changed. For example, We had originally started our piece by showing the antagonist playing with underwear. However we realised that by starting with the antagonist it ruins the aspect of suspense. we then changed the starting shot to photo board of the victim, this was establishing who the antagonist was targeting.

Originally each credit was placed one after the other with no cuts or other clips in-between, however in our feedback we were told that it seemed long winded and dragged. so we decided to change this feature to having each separate credit spaced within the opening, with short shots of action.

In our rough cut, we had originally planned to not put any effects onto our clips. We thought the natural lighting from the street lamp worked well with the piece, however after audience feedback and watching certain thrillers, such as 'Memento', we thought that by having the black and white effect on every clip, created an eerie atmosphere. We also did it to give the sense of a flashback, which is a popular convention of a thriller, causing the audience confusing and un-certainty to begin with.




Originally, we had featured a flashback from sixth months earlier, with 3 friends meeting up.






However, our audience feedback mentioned that our opening was effective enough, without having to go into more detail with the friends.








Because of this we decided to take out the section of them all meeting, and instead changed it to just a message coming through on a phone, whilst "6 months earlier" flew across the bottom of the screen, fading into black.