RH - Roadside 4th roughcut feedback

After producing a 4th rough cut we needed to gather feedback. I put the rough cut onto Facebook and and asked people to give me some feedback. The image below is a screenshot of the comments from people after watching our rough cut.

ALL - Roadside 4th rough cut

RH - Late change in storyline

After gaining feedback from our 4th rough cut it came apparent that we must re-shoot once more. One of several issues with this is that time is against our side. Also our main actress Megan cannot re-shoot. This means we have to use POV shots.

The main issue we have had is that we just haven't shot enough coverage. I will be going back up to our location and take loads of coverage of our killer approaching the car. We have also decided to change the way our 'Scream Queen' Casey gets murdered. This links into the change in storyline.

Basically we have tried to connote that 'Sam' has something to do with the murder. However we leave this as a narrative enigma as he will now be killed. 'Sam' is on the phone and slams the door. As he turns around the killer will be standing in the hall way with a knife holding a phone to his face signifying that 'Sam' was just on the phone to him. This is our preferred reading.

As 'Casey' drives closer to the doom we will see a shot of a sign post with some blood dripping down off the sign. When she crashes her car we will cut to shots of the killer approaching the car. 'Casey' will slowly start to come around after the crash. She will reach for her phone to ring 'Sam'. She will then look out the window to see 'Sam's' phone on the ground ringing. This will cause panic. We prior to this will have seen the killer approaching the car. We then will see a shot of the killer on top of the car. This provides intertextuality to 'Halloween'. Suddenly the killers hand will reach in and grab 'Casey' then his head will drop down and he will provide the fatal blow.

RH - Soundtrack recorded

Today I went up to record our soundtrack with a professional musician/composer who is a family friend. It is an original soundtrack. We went through the footage talking about when we wanted to add suspense and I told him what I was trying signify with the shots that have been included. It went really well. He was using some advanced software that we don't have use of in school which is an advantage. We were also in a studio which gave superb sound quality. We recorded the sound for each shot/scene and then mashed it together. Although we have recorded this, we still have to re-shoot which means we will have to edit our footage in keeping with the soundtrack which will be a challenge.

GG - Changes to be made from feedback

After gathering a lot of feedback from our 3rd rough cut we have decided to change the following:

• The opening drags on for too long, we are going to cut some of the shots from inside the house. 
• Recorded some more diegetic sound. The characters don't talk enough which makes the viewer think that maybe they aren't in a relationship and that she is a prostitute. Also add some laughter to show they are close and comfortable around each other. 
• In the killing scene, we need more point of view shots from the killer. 
• The car is traveling across the country road and a very slow pace, so we need to either speed it up or re-shoot the shots. 
• More cut shots need to be added in.
• Cut down the shots of the killer approaching the car to make it happen quicker, its drags on for too long.

RH - Soundtrack re-scheduled

I have delayed recording our soundtrack by one week because it will give us a chance to provide footage that is done and dusted so when I take it to the composer we can create it to the footage, this was possible because of the deadline being pushed back.

RH - Re-shoot because of continuity errors

I'm going to film some more shots over the weekend because we have continuity errors involving car headlight being on and off.  The sequence of shots doesn't make sense because of the lighting. We need to eradicate this.  Also we still want a POV shot of the killer stabbing the victim (Casey). I also might shoot some shots of a street sign with some blood dripping down off it, this would be an ECU, this would provide shot variation as well as breaking up a long take.  In the feedback we have gathered we have found out that our opening ends to suddenly. So we have to plan to film a continuation after the murder. Or just provide anchorage for the viewers that the victim is dead.

GG - Rough cut 3 feedback

I posted our rough cut onto Facebook to receive some feedback. The feedback we have got from it is from people aged between (15-25) this being our target audience. We plan to use this when making our final cut of our production. 

ALL - Roadside 3rd rough cut

This is our 3rd rough cut and close to completion in terms of camera shots, although there will be some still to add. This rough cut is still without the soundtrack and idents however the idents can be found on the blog.

ALL - Maroaders ident finished

 This one of two company idents, this is the ident for the distribution company 'Maroaders'.