rough cut
Speech parts
1. rough cut - Noun
2. rough cut - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
the first print of a movie after preliminary editing
of stone or timber; shaped roughly without finishing
Source: WordNetAlternative names
rough-cut
Synonyms
Antonyms
Show all antonymsHypernyms
Examples
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.
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.
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.
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.
It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there.
he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind