Using our practice piece in the final cut - diary entry

(Adam)
When we got to the end of editing our final cut we saw that it may be a good idea to utilise some footage from our practise coursework piece to improve our final cut. Our intention was always to have a proposed storyline in which the character of Ray turns out to be an informant for the police, this was, however, not made obvious by the initial final cut ( a close example of this can be seen in our rough cut ). So then that caused us to consider ways we could improve the construction and it just so happened that our practise piece was very similar in terms of characters to our final piece at the time. We then chose to use a series of clips showing what was an earlier version of the Billy Rich and Ray characters, the clips show Billy torturing Ray and are meant to show a glimpse of the film's later stages, with a complete film aiming to workup to that point.