Preliminary Filming.

Following a short delay in editing our final piece of video after the issue concerning the finish piece on the tape, together as a group we set aside sometime together in the designated practical lesson and in our own free time and began to edit our filming.

To begin, together we began by editing down the original piece of film; the raw piece of action that we wanted to capture was the character - Dan - walking around the corner of the building, walking through the English corridor, then down the corridor past the drama and media rooms concluding with him entering the room that we were in and ending with him and the character already in the room divulging in the conversation. The enigma code can be applied to this piece of sequence, the audience watching the piece is left wondering why exactly the person is rushing to meet the second character in the room.

In our group we decided that we were going to attempt to make our piece stand out against the normal, bog-standard piece which had been developed; due to each of us - especially  Dan - having some previous knowledge of using editing software on the MacBook, we decided that we were going to experiment with different colours and editing techniques.

Together, we decided that we were going to parody a series of dramatic thriller style movies that together we all have some knowledge of.

To begin this process, we decided that we were going to make each segment of the piece to be shown in black and white, thus bring about the idea that the piece that a person is watching is dark and mysterious - again referring back to the enigma code and tying in with the cultural code; showing that black and white generally mean that something unpleasant has - or is about to - occur within the piece of film.

I believe that the most successful piece of editing that we created within our piece was when we overlapped tow scenes into the same one; we had the first character walking to the meeting point, whilst over the top we had a scene of the second character - already in the room, waiting - looking at his mobile phone and using the computer in the room.

When we began filiming I believe that our piece started off very disjointed and unorganised, however as the piece progressed and we began developing ideas we managed to produce a good piece of work. Again, the group had a few arguements which arose due to some person editing preferences which occurred, however we each managed to produce a piece which showed off each element of the piece to it's full potential.