Asylum Rough Cuts

Below is Our First Rough Cut we made

Several points from feedback were that the shots were too long and the false scare wasn't scary at all.

 

Here is our Second Rough Cut

This was an improvement however there was a lot of mistakes and still very long. It had to be trimmed down immensely. Also the frame aspect ratio rendered out badly and had to be resolved.



This is our Third Rough Cut

The feedback given to us on this one was that the Black letter boxing had to go as it looked ridiculous and didn't work at all. Also the films



Here is our Fourth Rough Cut

We realized after the feedback on the fourth rough cut that we had to change to effects added to the film. It was too contrasting and sharp, losing the video quality when we needed it the most.



This is our Fifth Rough Cut

We had trimmed the clips down a lot more this time and had created better verisimilitude by changing the match on action shots more continuous. 





Facebook comments for our 5th Rough Cut






 
This is Ben watching our 6th rough cut




This is Ben watching our 6th rough cut





Ben gave us some really positive feed back on the start of our opening and credited our build up of the tension through our use of digetic and non digetic music and sound effects. the editing also is well done which is what we were trying to achieve a continuity for our opening. However for improvements our opening is very long and Ben suggested that we could shorten some of the takes, this is what we had considered previously in our other rough cuts but it is clear that some takes still need shortening and we can see that too. Also a bit more sound was suggested which we had also taken into consideration previously but what i think Ben means is sound linking scenes together for example the scene form the mental asylum to the scene of the doctor getting out of his car. Additionally Ben said that we could include a basic soundtrack which could work well with the opening to the film and the opening to the opening of the credits.


Therefore there are a few points we can take form this constructive piece of feedback which will be put into context of our final film. As well as our feedback as a group we feel that there are still tweaks that can be changed in our opening but feedback has helped massively on all of our rough cuts. This way we know what to improve and that it will be to our target audiences taste as our feedback was from people between the age of 15-26 as we don't want to change anything that hasn't been suggested unless we are confident that it will be effective.


Here is our Last Rough Cut

There was only little adjustments to be made including title sequence and more sound effects and music to be added to build the tension for the false scare and the death of Heather.



This is the Final Film Opening

Here is the final Film Opening, after a long editing process we have come to the final video. We have had feedback on this and everyone's opinions have said that this is a vast improvement since the first rough cut. They really like it and it gave them the "scary" feeling like most horror/slasher films do. I am pleased with our final opening, however it could have been shorter. We could have managed time better which would have resulted in a better video, however in all i think we gave it our best shot.