Rough Cut Evaluation

For the past week, we as a group have been working on finishing the rough cut for our music video “Trouble In the West”. The whole process hasn’t been easy as I am still learning how to operate Final Cut Pro Program but with every practice I feel more confident about my editing skills. As of right now, I am content with the pace of our music video and the length of the shots we have chosen as it goes well with the beat of the song. Also the set which was designed in the studio looked great on camera and goes with the narrative perfectly. The difficulty for me personally is to fill in the gaps which occur during the “party” scene as I am a little concerned that they will look repetitive and will bore the audience. When comparing our rough cut video to our storyboard, there aren’t many significant changes but during the office segment, we had to change the idea of Mr. Fox lifting and flipping the desk to him just throwing papers because in real life, the desk was much bigger and just impossible to lift. After we will be done filling those gaps in the video, we will move to completing special effects and switching that green-screen background to the forest at nighttime in order to represent Mr. Fox’s surroundings and set the scene.