The FINAL CUT!

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Below you can find the final cut of my/our opening sequence for the film genre film Film Title ... and after that, a playlist of the sample scenes and rough cuts I/we tried out before completing post-production!

If you want to see even more, I/we have also embedded a playlist of audience feedback - though all of this content is also featured in themed posts!

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THE FINAL CUT OF GENRE OPENING FILM TITLE

Say something briefly about the use of music + (downloaded?) title fonts, maybe idents (identify company names + 'ownership')

PLAYLIST OF SAMPLE SCENES/ROUGH CUTS

Before I/we got to this stage we tried out a range of edits, reflected in the playlist below. You can find more detail on each in my Rough Cuts and Sample Scenes posts! Here's a few examples of how my/our vision changed and evolved over time...

(Comment briefly on some major changes you made + the examiner/reader will see from this playlist: provide a bulleted list of significant changes between each version)

AUDIENCE FEEDBACK

I/we've also blogged separately on audience; below you can find a playlist of some of the videos I/we shot to help us gain a clear picture of what sample viewers thought about each cut or sample scene. Some key points that came up, and I/we responded to, include: [again, a bulleted list]

Rough cuts

You need to provide clear detail on each rough cut - look at the Eval Qs again ---- which of these will require specific detail like this?

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Give a general intro, then cover each rough cut separately, starting with the earliest.

I/We produced a range of rough cuts before settling on a final cut - testing out ideas and checking for elements that needed tighter/different media language to enable audiences to follow our encoded preferred reading. Each rough cut is detailed below, including information on:

• any focus of that rough cut
• key section/s
• any FX used (differently than before)
• any added media (sound, fonts, images etc)
• evidence of audience feedback
• main points from audience feedback
• our conclusion on what to change for the next cut (including any planned new/reshoots + narrative tweaks)

ROUGH CUT 1: MISSING SHOTS, NO MUSIC YET; TESTING THE NARRATIVE 

For this one I/we was/were particularly focused on building on the previous sample scenes and providing a near-complete narrative cut to see if sample viewers could follow the basic preferred reading ... and if not, which particular element/s were attracting contested/oppositional readings (ie, lacked enough exposition to be anchored).

At this stage we were missing a few shots (noted with titles in the cut) and music (we used some placeholder copyrighted music in places).

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Sample scenes

You need to provide clear detail on each sample scene - look at the Eval Qs again ---- which of these will require specific detail like this?

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Give a general intro, then cover each sample scene separately, starting with the earliest.

I/We produced a range of sample scenes before settling on a final cut - testing out ideas and checking for elements that needed tighter/different media language to enable audiences to follow our encoded preferred reading. Each sample scene is detailed below, including information on:

• any focus of that sample scene
• any FX used (differently than before)
• any added media (sound, fonts, images etc)
• evidence of audience feedback
• main points from audience feedback
• our conclusion on what to change for the next sample scene or cut (including any planned new/reshoots + narrative tweaks)

SAMPLE SCENE 1: 1ST SCENE WITH 3 DIFFERENT TITLE STYLES 

I/we wanted to immediately see if the audience was likely to follow our general intended preferred reading - and if not, what was being misinterpreted or simply not understood. Alongside this, I/we tested out 3 distinctive approaches to our titling - incorporating 9 titles (3 in a row with one font/style, then next changed + again). My/our teacher had advised us to be careful in simply assuming audience confusion meant I/we must make changes - I/we had been studying the genre + media language, they hadn't!! - but here's the sample scene together with a summary of audience feedback + our response to it in a single video. A text bullet list follows (then I/we cover the 2nd sample scene...).