Comparing Roughcut To Finished Video

The final finished video is very different to our rough cut. In the rough cut no effects were added, but now in the final video, we have alot of effects, which is a light effect. We have cut alot of scenes as this slows the video down and the viewer would find it boring. An example scene of being cut from the final video is Alison walking down the corridor. Picture below:Our final video is 3 minutes and 46 seconds long and our rough cut is 3 minutes and 28 seconds. The final version is longer as we did not add some scenes in the rough cut so we had a big chunk of that missing so now it is in the final video. Our final video would have been longer if we did not cut any footage, as i said some footage slowed the video down.

Here is the Final Version:

Here is the Rough Cut

Title Sequence

Here you can see that we have changed the title sequence in the final version. The text was plain and simple in the rough cut and it appeared on the screen as if someone was typing it on. While this was happening, the background footage as moving, these both at the same time are hard to concentrate on and and for me, you have so many things moving in the background at a fast speed and then you have the titles over the top, makes me sometimes feel sick. So in the final version it was changed. We have a more stylish font for the titles which is very nice and it fits in with the style of the video. The name of the video is on a black background then, the rest to the titles are on a slow moving background which is more gental for the eyes. I feel that this is much better and suitable for the video. Only the name of the video is in a stylish font as we did not have the time to create the rest of the titles like this one so we had to keep with the rough cut titles but with a different background.

Special Effects

The special effects were add after the rough cut. We have many effects in our video and this makes it more believable, but having the effects still don't tell the story to the viewer. The special effects were created by Alison on her PC at home as she had Sony Vegas Pro 9 as Final Cut did not have the after effects that we wanted. So Alison took the footage home to create this amazing light effects. She has also darkend the footage in the woods scenes. In the shot below, you can see the difference between them both with having the effects and without having the effects. You can see that having the effects make it look much better.

New Scene

This scene had been added in after the rough cut. The rough cut was only a work in process version and not all scenes were added in when the rough cut was processed into a video then uploaded. We have the two trees centre stage with the light high up between them, this was done with the effects in Sony Vegas Pro 9. This scene also shows the progress of the character, then she transforms. Our original idea we her disappearing going back in time then coming back, but here she does not, she justs transforms between the two trees.

Significant Change
Significant changes made to the final version was that in the rough cut we had loads of footage of Alison walking down the corridor, through reception and out the doors, then through the car park then heading to the college woods. Showing the process of the character getting to another location slow the video down so much so we had to cut most of that footage. The walking footage stops with the image below, then a shot of a doorr opening, then walking into the woods. The final version looks slightly strange when it keeps cutting, but i feel that we could have had some of the walking footage still in it so that it does not look strange.

Significant changes were also made form the script to the footage as the character was going to go back in time then come back, but as a vampire seeking revenge. But now time travel was included in the final video, it just shows the transformation of her into a vampire, but you do not know this until she bits her boyfriend in the neck in the woods, but then we cannot see her bitting him, so the storyline is more confusing in the final version.

We have tried to respond to the feedback to the rough cut version. But the main problem is that people still don't really understand the storyline. What happens in the woods? Why does she bite or kill her boyfriend? Why is she a vampire? The final version is 10 times better than the rough cut. When i saw the final version compared to the rough cut, it looked so much better, and the effects looked real as well and i did not expect this.