Knowing that lighting was an integral part to all productions, meant that this was a powerful tool to create a striking image and idea for ‘The Suppressed.’ While we kept to the conventions and forms of superhero movies in lighting as spoken about in ‘use’ sub Question One, we were greatly influenced by the production ‘Schindler’s list,’ a World War Two film that used a black and white editing technique and changed the lighting in turn to develop their production. Certainly, now a days computer generated imagery and visual effects are a major component of film production especially in superhero movies and postmodern texts. However, when these effects mean they discard verisimilitude it is important that editing be only used when to make a desirable specific effect / consequence to express something as explained in my Editing Transition Prezi.

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I edited all footage concerning the mental institution in post production on After Effects CS6, using the technique from Spielberg's media product to make a distinct separation of this location to the others in our trailer to highlight the persecution of the Dunamis (the people with special abilities). In 'Schindler's list' it expressed dark cynicism in regards to the treatment to the minority group - Jews who were classed by the Nazis as 'undesirables' because of the black and white filter. I acknowledged that our production was very reminiscent upon Schindler's list with the targeting of a group within society and applauded how Spielberg forces the audience to be submersed into be able to comprehend the sheer amount of people who died at the hands of the antagonists in this film all by isolating the colour of the red of the little girls coat to be the only coloured subject in red. My foundation of planning for this isolation editing technique can be cited in the props research. We incorporated prescription pills within our trailer appluing once again Barthes hermeneutic code to offer seemingly that she is being suppressed by the Doctor and the Nurse. Though the equivocation does not give a complete answer but an incomplete one as consumers can only assume that she really does have special powers. The underlying truth though they are supposed to make belief that she does, and the black and white filter presents that without her powers and her memories which have been taken away is taking away her identity; hence she does her world is dull and lifeless. 

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Schindler's list drew on the red coat due to its symbolic image of blood and is great juxtaposition of a young girl who represents innocence and youth but with her symbolising all these deaths is striking to show the burden of which all carried in that time and how not a single soul could escape the path they were being led down. Therefore, by inducing the colour to be only on the medication pot means that it can represent the repression of the government but the lack of clarity of Clary's mind as she is stuck somewhat between what she is told of being mentally ill or does she have powers. 

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I developed the mental institution footage by following multiple different tutorials; one can be found to the right. By using After Effects I was enabled to utilise the 'leave colour' tool, then I could alter the 'tolerance levels' and prior to this using the eye dropper tool you can pick the colour you want. Although I was met with the problem of isolating the medication bottle where it could not differentiate the colour of the hand from the bottle. So after I had done these steps I had to go by every fraction of a second to mask the bottle. When experimenting however if this was the same for other shots, it was not and the blue scrubs are also coloured in these scenes due to respondents during post production collectively said that they found it striking image which could exacerbate the message we were trying to achieve for our trailer. 

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Altogether this development of footage has allowed us to essentially allow the audience to bridge an understanding with someone who is mentally ill by being positioned to see how she views the world.