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1. MUSIC VIDEO
PRODUCTION
PROCESS
LOGJAMES COOPER-ABEL

2. PRODUCTION LOG:
GUIDANCE
• This document is for you to track the progress of your
production – filming, editing and post-production.
• This is so you can track what you did and how you did it,
explaining and amendments and changes you made and
tracking the decisions that have shaped the practical
creation of your music video.
• The more detail you include about how you made your music
video, the better. The document is broken down in to two
sections, Filming and Editing, each of these is then made of
specific elements that occur in both.
• For each slide there is a prompt detailing what you should
include, delete the prompt after you have complete the slide.
• Remember, images often show what you’ve done more
effectively than words. Use text to explain an illustration.

3. FILMING
Explain what worked and didn’t work about your filming and how you
managed this covering the following areas:
• Technical – using the cameras and any technical equipment; this could
be how you did your lip sync, used the green screen, dealt with problems
with batteries, etc
• Logistical – did your locations work? Did you have any access
problems? Did it rain?
• Personnel – how were your cast/crew? Did anyone let you down? How
did you manage this?
• Planning – did your planning help? Do you think it could have worked
better? How?
• Next steps – do you need to re-film? Film more? Have you changed your
video? How/why?
*If you make any drastic changes to your video you MUST
add this to your planning documentation and state how and
why this has happened

4. FILMING – PRODUCTION STILLS
Where appropriate add stills from when you were filming, annotate
where necessary
The production for my music video began with me shooting footage for
scenes within the music video that would be using green screen in which I
shot my needed footage in the green screen studio by doing lips sync
versions of certain points in the song I was using in which I set the camera to
begin recording and then played the song on my phone placed it on the inside
of my pocket in my hoodie and used that as a guide to lip sync the lyrics.
After finishing shooting footage in the green
screen studio I moved into the next location
or locations I would be shooting at which
was the hallways in York college in which I
repeated the same process from the green
screen room in which I recorded footage of
myself lip syncing lyrics to the song I would
use in my music video in which I repeated
the same process I used in the green
screen room in which I would set the
camera to record then played the song on
my phone and placed it in my pocket to
help me lip sync the lyrics to the song.

5. FILMING – PRODUCTION STILLS
Where appropriate add stills from when you were filming, annotate
where necessary
The next location I visited to shoot footage for my music
video in which I had the camera placed at the bottom of the
stair and then extended the legs and pole on the tri pod until
the camera was level with me at the top of the stair allowing
me to create a long shot in my music video as one scene in
my music video was planed to have a long shot of me in it
looking upward and to make sure I tilted my head up at the
right time I once again played the song on my phone placed
it in my pocket and tilt my head up at a specific spot in the
song.
After finishing recording footage on the stairwell I moved onto the first floor balcony to do
panning shot going up and a close up shot of me lip syncing the lyrics of my chosen song for
my music video in which I was also able to get help with the panning shot from my former
media level 2 teacher Shantel with the panning shot in which I had her pan the camera up
wards towards me slowly but also it was sunny enough to create the lighting needed for that
specific scene set in that location.

6. FILMING – PRODUCTION STILLS
Where appropriate add stills from when you were filming, annotate
where necessary
For the final live action shots I went back to the stairwell and place to
camera a few feet away from the door as in this live action shot I would be
kicking the door open and lip syncing lyrics of my chosen song for my music
video and I didn't want to slam myself or the door into the camera when I
came through the door and break the camera then I found an empty class
room and recorded some close up and medium shots there using the same
lip syncing process I had been using for other location I was lip syncing the
lyrics in.
After finishing up on recording the live action footage for my music video I
began recording footage in halo 5 using a capture card in which I began by
recording the master chiefs scenes first such as him standing by a window
and looking up ,walking past a monitor in a hallway which will be important
when I get to editing the video, walking towards something In a room and
finally standing a looking at something or his new armor set but also I used
a slightly different method than the one I had been using to lip sync the
lyrics of the song I played the song on my phone and then pupated the halo
5 avatar to do specific thing when the song reaches a specific point so It
matches up easier when editing the music video.

7. FILMING – PRODUCTION STILLS
Where appropriate add stills from when you were filming, annotate
where necessary
After finishing recording the master chief parts of the music video I began recording footage of Fred, Kelly, Linda, Jerome, Alice
and Douglas for the acapella bit of the music video as at the near end the singer is joined in by multiple people so I decided to do
the same in mine in which basically to to create of the sense of the character singing I followed the same rule used when it come
to create a sense of character talking when they have helmets on is to have the character bob their head up and down to create to
illusion of the character talking and so the same rule can apply when trying to create the illusion of singing so I had to do was have
the song play in the back ground and bob each characters head to the lyrics of the song each however Jerome's part would be
bigger as he would be two times singing along with me in a reverse shot.

8. FILMING – PRODUCTION STILLS
Where appropriate add stills from when you were filming, annotate
where necessary
Finally to finish the filming segment of this music
video project I began shooting the panning shots
in which I had the m mum take the camera and I
did the puppeteering for the character in which
she would move the camera towards the left
whist I bobbed the characters head up and down
for one scene and for the other scene mum
would pan the camera downwards whilst I made
the character change their weapons whilst
standing next to a piano prop to create the
illusion of the character playing the piano

9. EDITING
• Record your edit progress, decisions, problems, etc. in this section
• Include screenshots with annotations, statements, etc.
• Try to explain how you worked and justify why you chose to work the way you did.
• Follow the structure and what to include on each slide as this is necessary for evidence for assessment
When I started my editing, I first imported the song I would use for my
music video then after imported my live action footage first I began
editing in which I cutted out the unneeded bit like the pause and mistakes
until and used the music itself to tell me where each piece of footage
moving them back and fourth on the timeline until had the footage line up
with the lyrics then after I began editing the green screen footage by first
adding an ultra key to the footage and applying different backgrounds

10. Next I moved onto editing the machinima footage from halo 5
in which I did the same I did for my live action footage in
which I cut a out unneeded bit of footage such as mistakes
and character waiting for their queue and layering the
footage on top of each other to create serenade scene within
the music video
EDITING

11. EDITING
Finally to finish of the editing of my music video I added
scene transition to the live action footage in which I also
layer some clips over the other so when the scene transition
begin it smoothly transitions to the next scene more
smoothly.

12. EDITING –
FILE MANAGEMENT
For the video footage I will use in my music video I saved them on a separate
file called footage and saved my premier pro project in my college work folder
on my simmax flash drive

13. EDITING –
SETTING UP PREMIERE
For the set up of my premiere pro project I have set It to have
it be called halo no regrets the location it is saved is on my
simmax flash drive the rendering software being mercury
playback engine, display format timecode, display audio
sample and capture format being DV

14. EDITING –
IMPORTING FOOTAGE
Show how you imported your footage, your file set up in
Premiere and how you have organised your different docs
[video, audio, etc]
When It came to importing my footage I first selected all the
pieces of footage I would need then dragged it over to
premiere

15. EDITING –
WORKSPACE
Show and describe the Premiere Pro workspace – preview
window, bins, timeline, playback window, tool bar, audio
levels, etc
The time line is where you
view all imported and edited
audio and footage and layer
them on top of one another.
The preview window
allows you to preview
footage and audio.
The tool bar is
where you go for
tools to help edit
footage and audio.
Audio levels
allow you to view
how loud the
audio for the
video is.
The ply back window allows
you to view the edited video
throughout the editing
process.

16. EDITING –
EXPORT
When it came to
exsporting my muic video
I set the format as h264
ans preset match source
– high birate and called it
halo no regrets and the
reason for this is because
since I use footage from
halo 5 and use the song
no regrets for my music
video it made sense to
combined the two
together and saved it in
my college work file in my
simmiax flash drive