Final cut Pro process - Safwana and Yagmur

Stage one: 
We began importing our footage onto Final Cut Pro, this allowed us to watch the footage in our organised folders and put them on our timeline in the order that we want. We started off dragging the footage from the desktop which became quiet difficult, as we had to go through all our footage and drag them individually onto the timeline, also it became crowded so we decided to start over again and import all the footage onto Final Cut pro. 

Stage two: 
We used our story board to order the footage, firstly we started off with the first section, which is a tilt of the protagonist looking out of the window. We cut the beginning which was too long, and started where we got the light flare. We also had to take into consideration the music, we planned to have some of our footage link with the lyrics, such as "we were young". Here we had a quick clip of the two friends taking a picture. 

Stage three:
The lyrics for this part of the song were "back in 1991", we decided to reverse the shot of Yagmur and Selcan jumping off a log. The reverse shot presents us with the past, all the joy that they once experience is now going, as the friend dies.




Stage four:
The lyrics for this part of the song were "when the story first begun". We decided to use a shot of pages which we sped up to represent time going by really quickly, especially as death is unexpected.



Stage five:
The lyrics for this part of the song is "I remember" and the pace of the song is slow so we decided to slow down the shot of the merry-go-round to fit the music. Additionally, it reflects childhood and past memories which goes well with our theme.

Stage six: 
Here we have two shots which are parallel to each other. The first shot is of the protagonist taking pictures alone and the second shot is of the two friends taking pictures together. The flash represents a 'flashback' which leads us to the past memories. 

Stage seven:
Here we have two shots that flow well together because the first shot pans up to the light, and the second shot transitions into light which then pans down to the protagonist. The light can be a representation of 'heaven' and the friend is looking up at her.