Friday, 15 February 2013

Starting the Rough Cut (13/02/13)


After finishing creating the sub-clips from the visuals and audio we were given, it was time to start the rough cut.

To do this, myself and Lewis started off by looking through the script and seeing what order the visuals were supposed to go in. Since I cut up the narration, I had a very good idea of what the story would look like so I recommended to Lewis that he should have a read through the dialogue in the script to get to grips with what the story is supposed to be like.

We started off my opening the film with the clip of the cannibal walking away from the train and the narrator watching him leave. Then we did a small montage of the train travelling fast through the night, with very quick cuts to add pace to the piece and to show that the train was moving fast.


After that, we cut to a shot of the corridor and as the train jolts the camera falls into the cabin and then we cut to the cannibal lighting a cigarette and starring at the camera (as if it were from the narrator’s point of view).


After that, we cut to the shot of the cannibal with nobody either side of him and his suitcase above his head and it starts to open. Then we cut to a close up of the suitcase as a skull is revealed and falls out of the case. Then we cut to the shot of the cannibal’s feet as the skull rolls and hits his foot.

We didn’t stay long during the rough cut because we had spent roughly 5 hours cutting the sound files and getting them labeled up in a way that we thought would be most practical and we were getting annoyed with the rough cut due to the fact that we had been starring at the screen for a long time.

So we decided that it would be a good idea to leave it as it was and both go back to our houses and have a good read through the script and make sure that we had the story in our head ready for the next day when we could carry on with the rough cut feeling more refreshed and ready to edit. 

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