eli5: what’s a rough cut in filmmaking?
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It’s the same as a rough draft in writing. It’s the first finished product with a beginning, middle, and end. You put together all the scenes that were shot, usually how it was all scripted. You can run the rough cut from start to finish, and it should essentially make sense and appear to be a complete movie (minus any VFX or sound work that still needs to be done). But it’s a rough draft. Dialogue will get cut, scenes will be cut, subplots might seem irrelevant now that you watch the whole thing and so they get cut, etc. The order of some scenes might be rearranged to pace the movie differently, stuff like that. There’s a saying: “a movie is made three times. Once in the scriptwriting, once in the shooting, and once in the editing.” A rough cut is the very beginning of editing.
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