The document provides a midway evaluation of a rough music video edit, identifying several areas for improvement in the final edit. These include color correcting numerous shots, adding more transitions between clips, shortening an overly long shot, adding a flash to introduce a flashback scene, using a cross dissolve to transition between locations, stabilizing shaky footage, potentially removing an out of focus shot, and rotating and cropping a shot with a slanted stage. The evaluation aims to determine what needs to be improved to create a higher quality final edit.

1. Midway Evaluation
Rough Edit Music Video
Throughout this evaluation I will discuss the weaknesses of my rough edit music
video therefore enabling me to determine what needs to be improved when creating
my final edit.
Although I feel that the footage throughout the music video good quality with a
small amount of shots which are out of focus, I do feel that there are a large number
of shots which need colour correcting when creating my final edit. Also throughout
my rough edit I pieced all the raw footage together with minimal editing and
transitions, therefore just cutting from one clip to another and although I feel this
works well in narrative music videos, I also feel that when creating my final edit it is
important that I focus more on adding effects and including some transitions.
30 seconds into the music video there is a clip of the
main characters feet running through a puddle,
however there is a number of seconds afterwards
where you can just see the puddle, therefore this clip
needs to be cut shorter for my final edit.
Although I feel I did well to emphasize the fact
that the piece of footage from 1 minute 4
seconds to 1 minute 12 seconds was a flash
back of the main characters parents arguing by
adding a black and white effect, I think it could
be improved by adding a flash at the beginning
of this particular clip.
From 1 minutes 20 seconds into the music video there is a sudden change in location
from Eccles to London, Although I feel that by using a shot of the train pulling away
from the train station followed by a number of shots of London it establishes the
new setting and emphasizes the narrative of the main character running away to
London, I feel that when creating my final edit a cross dissolve transition would be
appropriate after the train pulls away to represent the passing of time.
Also the 3 clips from 1 minute 30 seconds to 1 minute 56 seconds which were filmed
in London need stabilizing using the warp stabilizer effect in After Effects.

2. The shot at 2 minutes 12 seconds is out of focus
however due to timing it is not possible to go out
and re-film this particular shot, therefore I may
have to remove this clip and replace it with a
better quality piece of footage.
The very last clip was filmed at an angle which
resulted in the stage appearing slanted which we
didn’t realize until we began editing, due to the
fact it isn’t possible to go back to the location
where we shot this particular piece of footage,
when creating my final edit I will use rotate and
crop this clip using After Effects.