Drafts

As a whole my partner and I didn't have that many drafts. However there was one which had a massive difference in it to our final product.
From watching previous film openings we both realised that each film intro has a different film company logo. Therefore my partner an I thought it would be a good idea to use the Lions gate intro as it is very popular and well known in the film industry. Initially we thought it looked amazing as it gave the feel that you were just about to watch a real film which had been produced by a conglomerate film company and it also added to the length which we thought was a good thing.
We then came to the realisastion that the Lions gate company logo wasn't our actual film company name, also Lions gate have right to potentially sue us as they did not produce the film. So we decided to get rid of the intro to Lions gate.

Editing 

• The first thing we did was to convert all our footage from our SD card onto the Mac via the card reader. 
• As we wanted our work to be organised my partner and I made a folder called 'Delia and Dani' located on the bottom right of the screen. To make sure the footage was safe we duplicated it therefore if for some reason we were to loose all our work we would have a backup at the ready.
• Total importation of all the footage took just over an hour as there was a variation in the lengths of clips.
•  Once everything had been imported and successfully downloading it was time to start editing on Final cut pro 7.
• The first thing we did when we began editing was to change the name from 'new project' to the title of our film 'The Agoraphobic'.
• As we had a variation of clips which were already put into roughly chronological order it meant that it was easier for us to pick out of what clips we want to put into the timeline.
• Because when filming we only had a rough idea of what was going to be chronological order me and Cordelia had to re-watch the clips and select the order we want the footage to appear. To access our footage, you had to select 'open' 'Delai and Dani' folder and then open the clip you wanted to choose.
• using the hand tool we dragged our clips onto our timeline.
• As most of our clips were way too long, to change the duration we had to use the trim tool (The trim tool erases parts of the clip you don't want. like a crop tool. The good thing about the trim tool is that its easy to recover any mistakes you make).
• As we wanted the opening clip to be mid shot of the man drawing the blind when we watched it it was way too fast for an opening shot as it wouldn't give the audience much time to understand whats going on and why it plays a significant part in the film introduction.
• To change the pace of the clip we selected 'modify' and then 'change speed'. To change the speed all it took was to enter a percentage to what pace you wish for it to become. (100% being to fastest to 0% being the slowest).
• We carried on changing the speed of different clips throughout the editing process.
• The next thing to do once we had positioned all our clips onto our timeline was to sort out the audio. 
• At first we had trouble finding music as it had to be from a royalty free site. we eventually found a track called 'Return of Lazarus'. This track fitted the 'Thriller' genre perfectly even though it was under the genre of 'Sci-Fi'.
• The track was successfully downloaded by clicking 'download' option next to the audio clip. The track then automatically saved into an ITunes folder.
• To get the music onto our footage we had to use the hand tool to drag the audio.
• We then used the trim tool to get rid of the access music which has no footage to it.
• The issue we had with the music was at some points it started to go Sci-Fi related (high itch sounds). To try and solve this we had to cut parts of the audio then try and match it up.
• We realised that the music was way too jumpy and had no flow, to prevent this we used the pen tool. at the end of each section of audio we'd either turn up or down the music.
• The next thing my partner and I did was to try and find royalty free music of sound effects. 
• once looking through the site for a while we finally found some sound effects. However once we downloaded the sound effects we had trouble matching it to the footage.
• between my partner and I we discussed how we can over come this problem, we realised that we should of just added the original sound effects of the pills dropping, footsteps etc. as its as realistic as you can get.
• Once we had finished sorting out the sound effects we started colouring grading . colour grading was under 'filters' then 'colourway 3' the colour grading tool appeared with four different settings  Blacks, mids, whites and saturation. As our piece has a negative emotion to it we turned down the saturation and up the blacks. 
• We decided to put a blue filter onto our overall footage to represent how depressed he is.
• The last thing we did was to add the titles. We decided to but a white filter to them as you'll be able to see the contrast between the colours.  

Colour Grading

Colour grading is the process of altering and enhancing the colour of a motion picture, video or image either electronically, photo-chemically or digitally.

As we changed our settings for the different shots frequently we got a variation of lighting and contrasts. Some of the shots were filmed near the window meaning the lighting was faded and over saturated whereas the shots filmed by the door where very dark and dull.
Whilst experimenting with the software of final cut pro my partner and I came across colour grading. We thought it would be the perfect way to express his condition through it and to fix the lighting on each shot.

As you can see from the picture there are three different circles of colours for different tones. Blacks, Mids and Whites. Deciding what tones would suit the condition of agoraphobia was hard. I researched the colours which are usually linked to depression and came across blue/ grey tones therefore we decided to colour grade each clip to have a blue/grey filter on it.

Overall the setting which helped the most in sorting out our footage out was the saturation tool bar as most of footage recorded was over saturated. Increasing the darkness and contrast within  each shot increased the shadowing which can represent how negativity has taken over his life and is controlling him.