3. Are you pleased with you footage and your finished edit? Is it how you expected it to look? What works really well and what would you change?

I was actually pleasantly surprised when we viewed the footage after our shoot day. It was a lot better than I originally expected because during the day it's hard to tell whether or not all the shots have been covered and if we've got all the footage needed to create a decent music video.

Below is our finished music video remake:



Although our finished edit took a while to finish, I feel that it looks quite good and once we added all the grading, flashes and high exposure shots the video just came to life. I am so pleased with how it turned out but it was definitely a struggle to get there. It looks a lot better than I expected as well for sure. I didn't know at the start that this project would be as good as it was and the final outcome made it all worth it.

Angela and I spent quite a while trying to grade the shots according to the reference that we had from the original video but at times we couldn't get an exact match which was quite frustrating but it also gave us the opportunity to make creative decisions about what we should do with the shot to make it look good. This was quite a fun task as you watch a shot go from quite a flat, normal shot to something with life.

Here is an example of one of our flashes:

I feel like the way we cut the shots and the sync with the music worked really well as if you watch the original and then our take on the video it should look pretty similar and the words she's singing match pretty well with the song and the lyrics. The grading process, I feel, was also quite successful.

Here is an example of one of our graded shots of the guitarist:

Here's an example of another one of our flashes:

If we had the opportunity to do this again I would definitely film the shot where the lead guitarist kicks over the drum kit as it would've matched so well with the original video and also would've been a lot of fun to film.

Obviously, we didn't get the opportunity to do this as we were using the school's drum kit and also health and safety issues. I would've also liked a bit more time to edit so that we could've fine tuned certain shots to make it as close to the original as possible. Also, in the video they use the lights overhead to do some of the flashes and I feel if we had done that, it would've been a little bit easier on us and also looked a bit better.

However, having said that, I'm really proud and happy with our final outcome and feel like the time and effort we dedicated to this project really shows through.