Evaluation question 3: 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?

My music video remake:

Overall, I am very happy with our final product. Other people have commented on it saying that "it's incredible!" and that "it looks so professional, well done". I am proud of what we were able to achieve in such a short time.

I think that the footage that we had was of very high quality. We had plenty of shots to choose from and the footage was similar to the music video. I am also very pleased with our grading. The colours are vibrant and are cool-toned, just like in Taylor's video. Jerom, Olamide and I spent a whole evening after school dedicated to grading our shots so that we were all satisfied with our final edit. For the hip hop scenes, I increased the saturation so that the red colours stood out more against the grey background.

Right (before grading)
Left (after grading)

Before grading

After grading:
Three way color correct
Levels
Brightness & contrast

One thing that I had originally been concerned about was that there was six people playing the role of Taylor Swift. I thought that a constant change in the performer would confuse the audience. However, when watching the video, audiences have been so engrossed in the actual content of the video rather than the people playing the characters.

I was surprised by how professional our final music video looked. Despite our lack of performers for many of the scenes, we still managed to fill up the shots.

I was particularly pleased with the robot and the tutting sequence. I graded it to make the gold and the silver stand out as much as possible. I think that this sequence was the most similar to the music video.

If it were possible, I would have had setups that fully matched the music video. For example, in the robot scenes, the setup was not as dark as it was meant to be. This was due to a lack of time, as changing the background would have been very time consuming.