Joelle Alexis Niels Pagh Andersen Jordana Berg Maya Daisy Hawke
Yael Bitton Anne Fabini Jakob Høgel Per K. Kirkegaard
Erez Laufer Mary Stephen Audrey Maurion Ollie Huddleston Claudio Hughes Iikka Vehkalahti

roughcutservice

For those of you who believe that you have a great film on your hands,
but are not happy with the rough cut.

How

Send a simple application to us.

Ideally, we would get your application 10 days before you need our feedback. But we understand if sometimes you need it “now-now”.

 

In the application we need: 

  • A short description (synopses, treatment) of the project
  • The approximate date when the rough cut will be ready for feedback.
  • Who is financing or supporting the film.
  • A list of the director’s previous films and a short cv
  • A scene from the rough cut, five minutes maximum length – NO TRAILERS
  • A list of the scenes in the rough cut.

Once your application is accepted you will be informed, which one of us will be working with you.
Send your rough cut to us via an FTP server or by Vimeo/Dropbox/We transfer by the time agreed.
It has to be downloadable.

What

We want to support you to reach the film you want to do.

Two of us will screen the rough cut and after that:

  • you will get questions to clarify your goals, if there are additional materials, the target audience etc…
  • You will get written feedback : comments and proposals on the dramaturgy and structure of the film comments and proposals on the key scenes of the film comments and proposals on the possible narration, voice off/voice over, music, graphics etc..
  • You will have an intensive Skype discussion with one or both of your supporters.
  • You send the new rough cut.
  • you will get the final comments and proposals by one or both  of the supporters. The professional supporters will dedicate a total of four working days to your project.
  • If you have made the application for six days work you will have additional Skype/Zoom discussion/s and feedback to the next version/s of the film or/and we will work with some scenes or other aspects of the film more deeply.

Who

Most of us are editors. We are all used to working with rough cuts, through a wide variety of story-telling approaches.

We use the term “professional supporter” to underline the fact that we work to support the filmmaker to do the film the filmmaker wants to do, not to propose or force the filmmaker to do a film the professional supporter would like to do.

Joelle Alexis

Niels Pagh Andersen

Jordana Berg

Yael Bitton

Anne Fabini

Maya Daisy Hawke

Jakob Kirstein Høgel

Claudio Hughes

Per K. Kirkegard

Erez Laufer

Mary Stephen

Ollie Huddleston

Audrey Maurion

Iikka Vehkalahti

What does it cost?

The fee is 2700 euro if the budget of your film is more than 200 000. If you want to have  one round more the charge is 4000 euro. To others the fee is 1900 euro and 2700 euro.

All of us have been working with films from very different cultures and countries. Knowing the financial situation of directors from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Middle East we are searching institutions, financiers and funds to support projects originated in those countries to use our services.

Contact us


roughcutservice@gmail.com
or
iikka.vehkalahti@gmail.com
jakob@kirsteinhogel.dk

If you need our consultation, please fill in the application:

Apply now

Supported films

When Iikka Vehkalahti and Menno Boerema created Rough Cut Service the aim was to especially give support  to the talented film makers who often have to work alone and in countries where support to documentary film making is small. But the service is also for experienced film makers who are missing a fresh, professional eye.

Listed below are the films RCS has supported so far including feedback from the film makers. With some of these films we have done quite a lot of work, with others our contribution has been less or small. But all of them have been great to work with.

More supported films

Editing resources

Rough Cut Service is not only about consultancy but also about promoting and supporting the art of editing. We have therefore collected a list of links to videos, articles and books focused on editing.

Video resources

RCS online sessions

Articles, books, papers

See all resources