Evaluation Q3: Are you pleased with the footage and your finished edit? Is it how you expected it to look? What works really well and what would you change?

Overall, I am extremely pleased with my groups final edit and the quality of the footage that we created. I have had nothing but positive feedback, with people saying comments such as "It's so good, I loved it!" and "It's great, it looks so professional".  

I think that our edit was very successful as it looks extremely similar to the original music video, which was the aim of our brief. Some of the areas that I am particularly please with the outcome include:

• The overall grading, especially in the ballet sequence 
• The precise shot changes and cuts
• The overall performance of everyone who took part
• The accurate lip syncing

We were able to use our grading to improve the aesthetics of our footage, whilst also making it appear more similar to the original music video.

We graded the footage above with the goal of creating a cold look to it in order to fit the slight blue/grey tint of the original shot, which may be seen in the bottom right corner.

A picture of our three way colour corrector

We were able to achieve this look by playing around with the settings of our colour corrector. By adding blue shadows we were able to achieve this cold look.

 Even though our edit was very successful overall, due to restrictions of space and availability, we were not always able to exactly replicate the original music video. For example, we were unable to remake the very intricate dance moves such as back flips, so had to substitute for shots of less difficult moves (as seen below).