Rough Cut | Development

When I showed Simon the first draft of my 2 minute opening scene he said that he liked it, and he said that it tells the story very well. A few things he mentioned were:

• The Titles
• The Flashbacks
• The Audio

The only title I had added before the rough cut was 'The Meeting' which was at the beginning of the 2 minutes and the names of my actors. Simon suggested that I add a company title, for example; A UCA Production. Simon also said that I needed to change the way I introduced the title with the actors name, so I have decided to show them at the beginning after the production title. I kept the font the same and made the actor's names bigger than other text that aren't as important.

The transition I used between the present day and the flashback didn't work as well as I had hoped so I needed to change this. Simon liked the black and white effect on the flashback, but he said I should try adding an echo to the audio before the flashbacks to help transition the new scene. I looked online to find some sound effects of footsteps and some woods ambience to help with the atmosphere of the video, and I decided to use the free SFX website.

I added on echo onto the footsteps before the first flashback and used the door slam noise to transition out of the flashback. Then I used the same transition with the footsteps and added a clock sound effect and transitioned out of the flashback through an echo. I then added a fade transition on the video to add to the flashback and I think it works really well, and you can tell it's a flashback.

I also needed to flip a clip over to help with the 180 degree rule and to make the ending flow better than it did before. I'm really happy with the 2 minute video, and the feedback from Simon was very useful.