Steps - Stomp © Sony Music 2022
To celebrate 25 years of Steps, we remastered the band's iconic Stomp music video in ultra-high defintion 4K.
The music video was originally shot on 35mm film back in the year 2000, which captured much more detail than was required for TV at the time.
Thankfully, Sony Music had preserved the film canisters in their archive, so the footage could be rescanned from the original film negatives.
We reassembled and regraded the music video to create a crystal clear remaster for fans to enjoy.
One shot of an airport departure board was missing from the film reels, so we rebuilt this using computer animation.
The film reels contained so much unused footage of the band performing their dance routine that we also offered Sony Music a never-before-seen "dance version" of the music video to share with fans.
As part of the remastering process we also found some unused rushes from the music video, which we sent to H from Steps so that he could share his memories and release these unseen moments to the fans.
