1. rough cut - Noun
2. rough cut - Adjective Satellite
lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
the first print of a movie after preliminary editing
of stone or timber; shaped roughly without finishing
Source: WordNetrough-cut
Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie. Al Pacino
For me, the work begins with a rough cut of the film. I can't do much with the script. I've tried to write music to a script prior to seeing the film, but I've found it turns out to be a waste of time. Cliff Martinez
With the fight scenes, they would take a video camera and shoot alongside the camera so we would piece it together on the computer and had an extremely rough cut of what we were doing. Kelly Hu
When you're editing the film, you use a temp track. So you're putting music in there for a rough cut to keep track of what's going on. It can be a hindrance if wrong, it can be an enormous asset if you get it right. Nicholas Jarecki
It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there. Donal Logue
he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind Source: Internet