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?

Below is our finished edit! I hope you enjoy...

I am so pleased with our finished edit and have been showing anyone who is willing to watch it! The feedback I have received has been very positive, often stating that the video looks super professional which I think is down to our work in the editing and performance but also due to all the staff behind the scenes who really made it happen.

I did not expect it to look this professional and honestly I am surprised with how none of us have had experience dancing or acting in front of a camera for a music video before yet we all managed to pull it off.

What worked well?

• the grading for all the Hip-Hop shots

                                                             

• the grading for all the ballet shots
• movements, such as Taylor touching her face or moving her hand etc., matched very well with the original edit
• the slo-mo shots in both the Hip-Hop scenes and the Ribbon dance scenes
• all our cuts match perfectly

Below are a before and after shot of our grading for the Robot scenes which I think shows the most drastic change in shots...

What could we change?

• The cheer jump shot was quite difficult to edit to match the movement of Taylor in the real edit as I took longer to get into the jump than Taylor. Our way around this was to razor tool the shot of me in order to shorten it. This worked out fine but the movement is not as smooth as it could have been. I think this is down to issues when filming on the shoot day rather than one we could have solved when editing.