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?

                                         

Our group's finished edit

Overall, I would say that I am extremely pleased with how the project panned out, and it is largely how I expected it to look. Admittedly it was naturally not quite perfect, with a couple of shots not at the correct frame speed to slow down smoothly, and others included to replace certain impossible shots (e.g backflips & stunts). Nonetheless, I am still very pleased with our edit:

-I was pleased that we were able to grade the shots pretty well, emphasising the saturation of the end dance & cheerleading, and tweaking the colour of highlights, mids & shadows well for other setups.

(left) Before grading vs After grading (right) 

Our Premiere Pro workspace when grading a shot

-The shots were cut very accurately, both when matching frames to the original and also when matching the audio with the lipsync. This helped to keep it professional.

-I felt that the footage itself was really entertaining whilst looking very professional with the various outfits and makeup.

Some feedback quotes from the crew

Some things I would change include perhaps toning down some of the grading, as the colour of some highlights was maybe too extreme, and as a result some skin tones appeared off-colour. Also, we could have cut some shots such as the cheerleader jump at 2:40 in order to make Taylor's movement appear more natural.  Additionally, we forgot to increase the frame speed for some shots in slow-motion. This meant that they didn't look smooth at all when they were slowed down, and we will have to be wary of this if we use slow-mo in our own project.