Final cut pro process - Yagmur

Stage one:

I wanted to reverse a couple of shots to show how the protagonist wants time to be reversed (before her friends death). I did this to the shot of me blowing out the candle so instead the candlelight isn't blown out. I also reversed the shot of me sitting down on a bench in a park of gravestones and there's one leaf on the bench which could represent loneliness, or her friend.

Stage two:
There are some parallel shots such as the one of the protagonist running down the stairs and both friends running down the stairs together. I decided to blade each of those videos and rearrange them so it flows. The protagonist runs down the stairs and then it cuts back and forth to the friends running down the stairs. It's a good editing technique to show the past and the present of how lonely the protagonist is now.

I also did the same for these shots to show the contrast of her happiness before and her loneliness now.

Stage three:
We wanted to drop 'hints' throughout the video of crosses, gravestones, angel statues etc. This shot shows the protagonist running up the stairs and the camera panning up to the cross which is symbolic of the friends death.

Stage four:

After the first chorus of the song, there's a lot more blurry lights and focuses in/out to show how distorted the protagonists' life is now without her friend.