Regeneration

Regeneration (also known as The First Doctor Regenerates | William Hartnell to Astile Doherty | A Doctor Who Fan-Film) is a Doctor Who non-profit fan-film that serves as a short introduction to the fan-film series. It was released on 25 July 2020. It is the first to feature Astile Doherty as his own incarnation of the Doctor.

Synopsis
Everyone is gone. Susan, Barbara, Ian, Vicki, Steven, Katarina, Sara, Dodo, Ben and Polly. They're all gone. Some of them dead. The rest of them moved on to better things than being in a police box wondering time and the universe aimlessly. In his isolation, the First Doctor's body wears thin due to sheer exhaustion from battling the Cybermen, and he collapses, regenerating for the first time in almost 500 years, giving him a newer, younger face, mind and body.

Production and Release
The video was achieved fairly simply by first using QuickTime Movie to record the video and audio of the First Doctor's regeneration from William Hartnell's last story, The Tenth Planet. A picture of Doherty lying on the floor with his eyes closed was then taken and, through the power of editing on DaVinci Resolve 16, the video of Hartnell regenerating was coloured and brightened up to a point of near-obscurity and Patrick Troughton was replaced with the still photograph of Doherty.