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
5. EDITING
I only had one problem when editing and
that was using a clip where the frame
gets filled with light and I wanted it it be
reversed after, so there is a scene where
the light flashes and then goes to black,
for it to flash again. My only problem
was, the scene wasn’t fully black when
the flash finished, so I had to add a black
screen to give this effect of light cutting
out just for it to pop again. The red
highlighted tile in this screenshot is the
black screen that I had to find on Google
images and add to my music video, this
is the only thing in the music video that I
used that wasn’t filmed by me.
6. EDITING –
FILE MANAGEMENT
I have a folder on
my desktop
dedicated to the
music video
project.
Everything within the folder is
put into other folders to make
sure that everything is clean
and I know where everything
is.
My music video is saved
within this folder so I don’t
lose it and I know where it is
at all times.
7. EDITING –
SETTING UP PREMIERE
When in Premiere, this is how I
started a new project, rather
than just pressing “new project”
when it first loaded up.
When using any editing software, I like to use 3
tracks of audio and video, the first for both
audio and video are used for the main focus,
such as the music and the main clips for the
music video, the other two tracks are used for
anything else that needs to be added such as
pictures, other videos and or more audio.
This is where the video settings are shown and
theses are the ones that I have selected for this
music video.
8. 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]
After getting all my clips that I
needed from the SD Card that
we used, I placed them all into
a folder (as previously shown)
and then put them into
premiere.
All my clips that have been taken
from the SD Card have been put
in this folder here.
As I downloaded all my audio clips from Google, I kept
them in the “downloads” folder as after I put them into
Premiere, I knew I wouldn’t use them again and have any
other need for them.
9. EDITING –
WORKSPACE
Here is the preview window
for whatever you are working
on in Premiere, this shows
you what the project looks
like as you are working on it,
Here is timeline where all your audio, video and pictures are put, this shows
where they are and lets you work on the video.
Here is the toolbar
that is used for
editing the video/
audio, there are
many tools you
can use here to
help make your
video better.
Here are
the bars
that
indicate the
audio
levels
during a
specific
part.
10. EDITING –
ASSEMBLY EDIT
Here is a specific screenshot where I
put my scene in and edited it but
cutting it up to match the drop of the
beat. I did this by using the audio bars
to help guide me so I can perfectly time
when the beat drops to when the clip
should start to help make the video
flow smoothly and work well.
11. EDITING –
REFINEMENT
In this specific part of the song, I
stopped the music for effect that works
with the video but there was no audio
at all so when re- watching the video
back, this part was uncomfortable to
watch so I decided to add some white
noise just to add something to the
scene, as it turns out, this was a great
idea as the scene is no longer
uncomfortable to watch and this small
change really does help the overall of
the video. I also cute the song up,
which is not it was originally like to
help make the scene even better.
12. EDITING –
COLOUR CORRECTION/SFX
This is the only scene in my
whole music video that uses
any type of colour correction or
effect and all I did was add a
blur to the scene and then turn
the red contrast up and turn the
blue and green contrast down,
just to add something new to
the video, it also works well with
the audio.
13. EDITING –
EXPORT
To export my video, when
on Premiere, I went to file,
export then pressed media.
This is where you can chose what to
name your file after its exported and
where you want to save it, I chose to
call it “Solid Music Video” and put it
in my music video project folder.
Here are the
basic video
settings that I
used for this
export.
