I am very happy with this edit. If, I'm honest, it looks closer to the real thing than I thought it would whilst we were shooting it although in editing, we were able to manipulate the video to make it fit with the original video and music. I personally think that all of the cuts were really close to the original and that most of the chosen shots look very similar to the original music videos. I also think that everyone in the video really put in a great performance but there were a few other problems with the video.
Although the actors' singing is synced with Zooey's, some of the actions aren't synced with the original music video. The opposite was true for the shots of Matt Ward where I mostly made the music videos look familiar but didn't really focus on the audio which is why if you look very closely, the guitar solo isn't synced up. In the library, lighting might be too dim on the background although we didn't want the main actress to be overexposed. Another problem was that we just couldn't recreate certain shots because of our circumstances (the corridor was a lot narrower and we couldn't hire a higher crane).
In hindsight, there are two main things I would have done differently in the production stage:
- Make sure everybody (performers, dolly grip, etc.) had practised in time with the music video.
- Shot every shot; I'm not sure how but in the end, we didn't shoot two shots from the original music video, the opening locker shot and all hula hoopers bringing the hoops together at the start of the gym sequence (see below).
