Ahhh I have finished my film! There were a lot of technical difficulties at the end as I'm not an expert with all the right formats etc for finalising and burning to DVD, can get be quite stressful as I've found out! I would love to post it up on here but no sure how to compress it in order to fit under the 100MB max file size, I will work on doing this in the near future. I am happy with it overall, but still feel as though I could have spent longer on it even though this film is all I've been working on excessively for the past two weeks. It's quite ironic, I seem to have become obsessed with making this Obsessive Compulsive Disorder film.

Ater much experimenting and deliberation, I have chosen the song 'dog shelter' by Burial as my soundtrack. I have to chop it up and edit different bits of the song together as I loved the intro but another middle part of the song went very well with a clip that didn't then fit. However I think I've done a pretty good job and its not obvious in any way.

I have now cut and edited the film together and am choosing whats sounds and background music would compliment the video. This has taken way more time than I thought it would, I've realised how fussy I am in getting things perfect which can be a good and bad thing!! I wasn't sure whether to go with a more fine-arty, less melodic sound and have it as a tool to make the viewer recoil back and feel some of the distress the sufferer would feel. Or, choose something a bit more melancholy which would allow the viewer to concentrate more on the visuals and encourage more sympathetic emotion. I could always try bringing in the not so pleasant sounds at the end to demonstrate the build-up of the frustration and torment of their compulsions. I am recording myself counting over and over to reinforce the concept of repetition, and also because 'counting' kept coming up in examples of compulsions; to relieve the feeling of uncertainty.

Have experimented a bit here with increasing the contrast. I like the result although I might make it bit more subtle.

First test.

I recorded about 12 different short clips of counting and going a bit crazy (to use as snippets in between the phone animation - to show the intrusive thoughts) I won't put them all up but here are a few examples...

Another clip from the final destination 2 film. Will probably use bits from both these final destination clips. I also filmed another 5/6 of these clips but they are too big to upload on here. They included plane crashes and more car crashes.