Final Cut Pro: Pathetic Fallacy

First, I edited the clips that I was going to edit, together, in order to show a before and after process. Here is the before edit:

I then began to play around with different effects that I could add onto the film to give it more of a horror feel about it.
I overlaid an effect called "Cool Steel" which gave the film a bit of a creepy, dreary feel about it. At first this effect looked too much, so I decreased the Amount % in order to fade the effect out a bit.

Following this, I added an effect called "Luma Keyer" which took the colour out even more, but still making it possible to distinguish between colours on screen. At first, the screen was nearly black, however once I began to play about with the gradients of the effect, I got it to a point that all colours we visible without losing highlights or shadows. 

The penultimate effect I added was "Sci Fi". This gave the image a slight green effect, which fits with the stereotypical idea of a supernatural film. Again, I played around with the amount % in order to soften the effect. 

 The last effect I added was Super 8mm. This gave the image a grainy, spotty effect which again adds to the whole supernatural idea.

Here is the final effect: 

On review, the shot where Tia enters seems dark and you cna barely make her figure out so We may need to reshot or to work on the saturation of the shot.

Pathetic Fallacy Deconstruction

Amityville Horror:

When thinking about Pathetic Fallacy, I remembered that the best scene I remember watching, which involved pathetic fallacy was definitely Amityville Horror. Towards the end of the film there is a clip which has great weather conditions and looks likes this:

• The fact it is raining instantly adds a bad mood to the scene. Rain, in the real world, makes people feel miserable and down. It has the same effect within a film. It changes the audiences mood for the worse.
• In addition to this, the colour quality of the film itself is rather dark. This makes the audience think the scene is filmed at night which also brings the audience's mood down.
• Renolds is standing out in the rain, in normal clothes. However it's the fact he is just standing there with an emotionless expression on his face. In reality, anyone would think this is a little weird. This mood rubs off on the audience creating tension and stress.

• The previous image is very contrasting compared to this shot in the scene. The clear sunny skies reflect a happy, cheery mood and it also has the same effect on the audience.
• The colours within this shot are very bright and summery. This makes the audience believe that the scene was genuinely filmed in a real place within the summer time

Photoshop: Pathetic Fallacy

I decided to make a bright and vibrant scene appear scary and unattractive. Therefore I selected an image from Google and did as follows. Here was my original image:

I went to filter then to stylize. This allowed me to click the Clouds button. This covered my entire picture which meant I needed to use a Layer Mask in order to remove the clouds from my foreground image. 

Once this was done I noticed that there were some spaced between to trees which meant the blue sky was visible. Therefore I adjusted the Black and White settings and used another layer mask to remove this from the foreground again. 

Again, the foreground image is still to bright and happy. Therefore I needed to dull it down a bit. So I went into Image, Adjustments then Vibrance. 

I lowered the Vibrance until the image appeared quite creepy and eery. 

The photograph still wasn't as I imagined it therefore I went back into Adjustments and lowered the brightness. This caused an effect that looked a little light Dusk.

Here is my final image: