FMP - Rough Cut 2

The second Rough cut was a massive step up compared to the original cut. I had spent a few more days editing this and been extremely harsh experimenting by throwing different scenes from the narrative all over the timeline to see how they would play out. 

The first thing I did was change the start to do what people wanted and grab there attention. The most tense and serious scene I have from the footage is the one of Ali and Dom first coming across the Taboo file. Therefore I decided to take a leap of faith and throw that at the beginning. This grabs the attention of the audience as they want to find out what the file is, and then when it is mentions want to find out what the story/film has to do with such a sensitive topic; child porn. This propels them into the trailer and into the next few scenes, allowing me to lay down the foundations of the story. 

Then edited all the scenes to correlate with a song. I removed the MGMT song as I could find a way of including two 'blockbuster' songs in the trailer effectively. I re-matched a lot of the sound so it flows and is all in time with the actors as we were recording sound into an external zoom instead of directly into the C100.

There were still some blanks that were needed to be filled in and some of the centre sequence was out of time to the music. So that needs to be fixed. Overall this received a much better response than the first cut and watching this made me see the potential it could have. 

After talking to tutors and looking at the feedback given, I was told that it is best for me to try to cut down some of the scenes a little further as some drag longer than needed. Some of the scenes need to fade into each other to made the trailer flow better and some of the sound peaks in areas. Main thing I was told to focus on was to fill all the gaps as the cut can no where be looked at properly until it was full. Finally one of the things I spoke with my tutors was the length of the trailer. it was clear that for it to successfully show the narrative the trailer would have to be around 4 minutes which is more like the length of an extended trailer. Therefore I should maybe look into making a shortened quick teaser trailer as well.