Editing

We knew in the edit we would have to keep things organised so we could keep track of everything, and it would make things a lot easier in the long run, so Ethan made bins to keep all of the different clips in. 

Ethan and I layered my animation over his 'blur' when the questions appeared on the screen. We had decided that as our documentary was Christmas themed, it would add a really nice atmosphere to the documentary if we added snow to the background. Ethan suggested doing it on After Effects but after some consideration we came to the conclusion of using Flash, where I could draw out the animation and we could key out the background later.

We knew that we needed something to set the scene at the start, and Logan had the idea of a time lapse of the sky getting dark and we considered different places around Farnham where we could get this footage. We wanted it to be somewhere high, preferably looking over the town and then we thought of Farnham Castle. The castle would perfectly meet our needs, and so we went to the highest point of the castle and set up our camera. We time-lapsed for almost an hour, and at this time of year it gets dark really quickly so we were able to get almost a full coverage of the sky from daylight to night which we were really happy with. We then placed this at the start of the film to bring the viewers into the atmosphere of our piece, cold and wintery and set at night.

We ended up having a very busy timeline on Premiere, as we had so many different parts added in from different places, such as the animations, the typography, and of course the clips.

When colour grading, Ethan thought it would be a good idea to try and make the tones in the image warmer as this would emphasise the snugness of the couple's home and make it seem more Christmassy and warm, which we all thought would be a really good idea.

The above image is the footage without colour grading, and underneath is the footage with.