R+P Post 19: Our rough cut

Once our test shoot was finished we edited the footage into our rough cut and it was a useful tool to see how our entire sequence would look together with sound effects and so we could perfectly see whether the sequence appealed to the audience we wanted it to appeal to and whether it was fast paced for the action-thriller genre as well as being continuous from start to finish.

On seeing the film we could see that the shots were too long for the fast paced nature of the action-thriller genre and our music also seemed quite dull and didn't have the dramatic affect we needed to grab the audiences attention. There were some continuity errors as well, e.g. the close up of the hacker dragging the mouse the wrong direction to delete the file he had hacked from the computer by putting it in the trash.

The continuity shots jumped too much from the people watching and following the hacker on his journey and the CCTV shots weren't convincing enough. However, many of the other shots did work well for the genre we were trying to connote, as a tense atmosphere was easily created.