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?

Our finished edit:

Ali and Iggy - Misery Business Remake SD from Latymermedia on Vimeo.
Having finished our editing and taken some time to step away and review it critically, I am very happy with what we have been able to produce. The quality of our finished remake is much higher than I had expected at the start of the project due to the nature of the music video. The video for Misery Business is very hyper-kinetic, and I feel as though we were able to replicate this in our performance and editing very well.

The top shot is framed quite well, but the
bottom shot, one of our groups takes,
is not framed as well

With this said, we did fall victim to a number of limitations during both the shoot and the editing process. On the shoot day, we had an allotted space of time to gather all of the necessary footage for three versions of the band. Needless to say, this proved to be quite the challenge when time become more of a problem. Due to these constraints, some of the planned setups had to be merge, whereas in more extreme cases, mistakes began to occur.

The shots on the right show a comparison of setup 15, with group 3's shot on the top and our group's shot on the bottom. As you can see the framing of group 3's shot is closer to the original than our group's. With this said, minor framing issues are not too bad since shots from each setup are spread out sparsely throughout the video.

With this said, I feel as though some of our shots looked really great after we finished editing them. Although we weren't able to completely replicate the effects in the music video due to software limitations, we were able to successfully in mimic the over-exposure in some of the scenes using a video effect on Adobe Premiere Pro called Luma Corrector.


Furthermore, we were able to grade our shots effectively. Comparing the same shot with and without the grading shows how big a difference it made. The top shot is the original, whereas the bottom shot is graded.

Overall, I am very happy with our final edit. I believe we have recreated the video to a very high quality, whilst still maintaining a professional look where the shots were not as close to the original. Remaking this music video has given me great guidance in preparation for next year.