Unpacking the Rough Cut pt.1

I agree, no movie director can arrange the unexpected we encounter in our daily life, but Addie and I did our best to arrange our rough cut from the film clips we gathered from our two days of filming.

Luckily I found we had more than enough footage to introduce the movie’s plot, despite us not having many of the shots we actually planned.

Location Location Location

Originally we had planned to film in several different locations and include a shot with Addie and I together and then a shot with just me alone in each of these locations. But as time rolled around we ended up filming in only three locations: Lake Jovita Park, San Ann Park, and the student parking lot.

This was beneficial to the making of the movie because they were all public/community parks or our own school campus, so we did not have to contact any business for permission to film on their property.

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At these locations we still maintained our original story board but instead of having us at different locations we shot at different parts of the park. For example you can see within the rough cut where we had shots of Addie and I together on the swings and then shots of me alone on the swings. And another instance where we had shots of Addie and I together on the basketball courts and then me alone on the basketball courts.

In editing together the two swing shots I did my best to create both a graphic match cut and a match on action cut in order to emphasize to the viewer the difference between the two shots. This difference being Addie no longer being in the shot, I wanted this to be emphasized that way the viewer understood, before hearing my dialogue on the phone, that Addie has left and I am sad because of it.

I wanted to use this method with all of the other shots we had captured in this way but I ended up running out of room. I was trying to accomplish too many things to make the inclusion of more shots possible. I wanted to both match the lyrics to the song we had chosen and make the progression of all the shots make sense. When I tried to include more of these shots it became confusing how I got to the parking lot and why I was there. This is why I decided to cut some shots and include more shots of me driving and entering the car alone.

I will be explaining more about our rough cut and the corrections that need to be made before our final cut in a later posts but for now please enjoy viewing it below.

Resources:

“Robert Doisneau Quotes.” BrainyQuote, http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/robert_doisneau_329386.

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