Completed Progress Log

1. MUSIC VIDEO
PRODUCTION
PROCESS
LOGMADELEINE ROSS

2. FILMING
• Overall, the filming went generally well. I did 3 shoots in total, 2 using the
light-box, and one for the footage of my actress lip syncing.
• Light-Box
• Overall, there were not many issues regarding the actual filming of
the objects, however when I did it the first time, I sturggled to find the
right angles to shoot at, and how to film without being able to see the
silver walls of the box. To overcome this I experimented with the
camera being at different heights of the tripod, having the box placed
on different surfaces, and eventually found a good position for the
camera.
• Lip Sync
• I found I had a few issues when filming the lip sync that I didn’t have
when filming with the light-box. First of all, the lighting was a struggle,
as I found even with every light directed at my actress in the room, it
still was too dark for the camera to pick up, so I had to pump up the
IOS to 600, leaving it grainy. To combat this however, I used the
lights from the Light-Box and held them up above the camera which
really improved the lighting.
• Another issue I had was scheduling conflict with my actress, who
unfortunately had to leave earlier than expected, so I had to cut a
few of my ideas out, however in post production it didn't’t effect too
much.

3. EDITING
• I started editing on Monday the 4th of November and I had completed
all of my editing by Monday the 11th. The editing process was quite
quick, because I feel quite comfortable with the basics of using
premier pro. Most of my editing involved cutting small clips and
splicing a lot of them together, so I didn't’t have too many problems
in that regard.
• Syncing up the lyrics wasn't too challenging, although it was
sometimes stressful when certain words were out of sync, or if my
actress had got some of the important lyrics wrong. To overcome
this I cut these certain words/lines out and used my filler shots to
hide the parts that were really challenging to sync or where she had
got the line completely wrong.
• I used lots of cuts on the beat because it was quite a choppy and
bouncy song and I like this way of editing because its something I
enjoy as I think it add action to the song and video. This worked
quite well and I think most of the time I was successful in cutting on
the beat, however after exporting and seeing it on the big screen, I
noticed some were slightly not as accurate as I would have liked.

4. EDITING –
FILE MANAGEMENT
I saved all my lip sync videos to a folder on
my desktop, and the same with my light box
clips. I did this because I knew I would
always be able to find it and it helped me
stay organized as well as my desktop
looking neat.
I’ve saved all my
music video
planning and
resources such as
research in this
folder in my
documents.
I’ve saved all the music video versions
from premier pro into this folder, as the
program crashed a lot and it so it saved a
lot of recovery files and copies of files.

5. EDITING –
SETTING UP PREMIERE
First I opened Premier Pro on
the desktop, and selected new
project.(Once I had been using the
program for the project a lot I just
selected the most recent project
and opened that as it was quicker.)
I then selected the “OK” button as I
didn't’t need to change any of the
settings in this screen.

6. EDITING –
IMPORTING FOOTAGE
Select file and go down to the
bottom of the list and I selected
import.
I selected the desktop
item as this is where both
of my files were.
I selected both of my files of footage
by holding down shift so I could
import them all at once.
After selecting my files I
selected import.
After the files had imported I
went into “Assembly” so I
could see both of the folders
and select the clips.

7. EDITING –
WORKSPACE
Timeline
Workspaces
Preview
Editing ToolsImported Clips
Clip Preview

8. EDITING –
ASSEMBLY EDIT
To assemble the music video, I dragged the clips that I wanted onto the
timeline from the import section. I started by trying to get all the lip sync
completed first so it was all linked together properly, and then I started to
add all of my other clips such as fillers and sections where my actress
didn't’t perhaps get the lyrics right or I was missing some footage of the
lyrics. Once it was all assembled properly I could move onto the refinement
section where I could neaten and polish my video.

9. EDITING –
REFINEMENT
Once it was all assembled and everything was
in the place I wanted it to be, I started doing
some color correction to try and reduce some of
the graininess in my video. I did this by creating
an adjustment layer so that I didn't’t have to
change every single lip sync clip, and could just
put this layer over the tops of the sections that
needed it.
I altered things
such as the
contrast and
amount of
shadow to try
and reduce the
grain and
improve the
lighting, in the
control panel
Lumertri Color.
I also scaled up some photographs as you
could see the background and black
outline of the backdrop, and I did this in
the effect controls panel. To avoid having
to scale up each tiny clip, I used “PASTE
ATTRIBUTES” for the job to be done
quicker.

10. EDITING –
EXPORT
Show how you exported your completed project, show which
settings you have used and explain your choice of file name
and where you have saved it
I exported my video as a YouTube 720pt file, as
I didn't’t want the finished file to be too big but I
wanted it to retain the quality of the video and
not become pixelated in a smaller form.
I saved the final
file as this
because I had a
lot of copies and
thought that this
one would stand
out more in the
files.