Final Cut (technology)
The so-called Final Cut (dt. Final cut ) is the name for the past and thus final scene montages of film . After the final cut, the primary and artistic production of a film for the producing studio is complete. In the film industry , the final cut (at least for the theatrical version ) is often reserved for producers only. It is created almost exclusively after a preliminary demonstration for a selected, representative test audience due to their immediate response.
There were / are very few directors who also had / have the privilege of a final cut, for example Alfred Hitchcock , Stanley Kubrick , David Lynch , Oliver Stone , Christopher Nolan or the Coen brothers .
Strictly speaking, the term Final Cut is actually not quite correct, because further cuts can still occur after the film is finished. B. in certain countries a desired age rating (it is assigned by the FSK in Germany ) is achieved. In doing so, however, it is almost always shortened to include particularly brutal, politically or human rights extremely questionable or even sexually very revealing scenes, but the sequence or the message of the film itself almost never changed.
Alternative ending
Alternative endings, especially for films, are the ends of a film that were planned but not realized. In particular, one speaks of an alternative ending if it has already been produced.
Alternative endings are mostly the result of the original production of a film, which was then badly received by a test audience . Since in such an advanced state no major changes can usually be made to the film, often only the end of a film is changed. Often, considerations such as how the “story should end” play a role, so the intention of the film or the genre is in part greatly changed by an alternative ending.
See also
Web links
- Lexicon of film terms: final cut , Kiel University, Institute for Modern German Literature and Media