eli5: what’s a rough cut in filmmaking?
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Imagine you want to draw a really good picture of your house for your parents. It’s a big job: you have to draw the house and the people around it, things like grass, the sky, the sun, trees, maybe even a fence. Then color it all in.
You want to make sure that the house looks right before you take the time to do the rest. So you draw the outline of it first, and show that to your parents. When they say it looks great, you can go and do the rest, knowing that the house is drawn correctly.
In film, things like sound, color, transitions, special effects, etc; those things are done by specialists, and take a lot of time and money. You don’t want to put those finishing touches on a scene that ends up getting cut. So in a rough cut, you’re making sure that all your raw footage tells the story you want, so that the rest of the finish process can be done.
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