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 – Overall I am happy with the camera work however in some of the scenes my
camera settings were not correct making it slightly grainy or too dark. This effected my
final effect as in some scenes it was very difficult to colour grade using a blue tint.
• Logistical – the locations turned out to be very easy however the time of day proved to be
difficult as the film schedule did not got to plan and I was forced to film in the evening as
my sister was not available at the point. This meant the lighting was not the greatest.
• Personnel – when I made the schedule it all went out of the window as previously she
had told me that she was free however on the day it turned out she was working. So I film
her when she cam back from 5 – 7 when at that point in was pitch black. The next day at 7
in the morning I filmed her for another 30 mins in the morning as it was significantly lighter
however she also had work that day.
• Planning – I believe the planning saved me a lot of time by structuring the camera shots
and editing techniques. It gave me something to follow minimising errors however I did not
follow all of the plan such as the time-lapse due to the time of day
• Next steps –after the filming I need to work on the animation along with ideas for
transitions from animations to camera work
4. FILMING –
PRODUCTION STILLS
In the introduction scene I wanted to focus of keeping
the footage smooth however keeping a blur so I
filmed at 23.976 fps in order to get that cinematic
look. I also lowered the shutter speed allowing shots
to have more of a natural blur to them.
When changing locations the lighting also
changed so I had to change the iso in
camera settings in order to adjust the
lighting setting and the brightness of the
scene
with the animation I also kept it at 23.976 fps
in order to get some motion blur. I also kept
all the animation black and white in order to
relate to the vintage tv
5. 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
6. EDITING –
FILE MANAGEMENT
For my footage I saved it all on a
memory stick in a folder called music
vid. I also saved everything that I
needed in this folder. This allowed
me to edit the video at home and at
college. It also organised my clips in
one folder so I would know where all
of the camera shots were.
I also saved my animation in another
folder on my USB called current
project so that I would have a folder
for all my camera work and a folder
for all my animation. This also
allowed me to edit the animation at
home and at school.
7. EDITING –
SETTING UP PREMIERE
Having saved the adobe
premiere file to my USB I set
my timeline for 1080p 23.976
fps to match the camera and
the animation settings while
keeping all the audio
settings default.
From here in premiere using
adobe dynamic link I was able to
import the after effects
composition directly into
premiere with out having to
export the adobe after effects
timeline.
8. EDITING –
IMPORTING FOOTAGE
For importing I worked
scene by scene with my
folder with all the clips
dragging and dropping
specific clips. I also did
the same for the song
bye bye macadam and
audio effects for the old
TV
9. EDITING –
WORKSPACE
As you can see from the top there was different preview
windows however I only used 3 main windows: Editing,
Colour and Effects
In the corner I
made 3 bins with
one called old clips
and new clips as I
filmed over a 2 day
period along with
another folder
called sound which
is where I put my
animation along
with sound effects
and music that I
used
In the timeline the pink represents the
animation while the blue represents the
camera work. Green is nested footage
however is also camera work.
10. EDITING –
ASSEMBLY EDIT
For the camera
work I didn’t really
need to sync the
audio however
within the
animation I had to
sync the audio and
I did this by
analysing the audio
wave forms of the
music and
matching the visual
animation on the
individual peaks of
the audio wave
forms
at the beginning I
slowed clips down
in order to match to
the music beat
however with the
camera work I only
had to do this to
the clip where she
walks up the stairs
11. EDITING –
REFINEMENT
I
In adobe premiere I added more
nested sequences (overlapped
clips) along with changing audio
volumes and effects to match the
visuals. I slowed some one of the
camera clips at the when the actor
is walking up the stairs in order to
sync it to the audio beat.
In adobe aftereffects I
continuously refined my editing
adding more effects such as CC
Lens sun burst and playing
around with other distortion
effects. However I had to
constantly go back and change
the points of the animation in
order to match the wavelength of
the music to be in sync.
12. EDITING –
COLOUR CORRECTION/SFX
For each individual clip I edited the colour
changing curves, brightness, vibrance, sharpness,
saturation and shadows. After this I used the
same lut for each clip (cold blue). This gave the
clips a blue tint taking inspiration from Entangled
by Lorn
for each clip I also applied warp
stabilizer to stabilize camera
footage especially for moving
camera clips.
For the final clips I copy and pasted
the clips on top on one another and
nested the footage so I could apply
effect to both of them. For the
copied footage I enlarged it
changed the base colour to red and
set the blend mode to lighten.
Afterwards I changed the opacity
level in sync with the beat creating
an interesting effect
13. EDITING –
EXPORT
I used a pre-set (youtube
1080p). However I made
sure I kept the frame- rate at
23.976 in order to maintain
the cinematic look at match
the fps of the camera work
in the export rather than
exporting in 60 fps or 30 fps.
For the audio I kept it at
48kHz as it is standard for
YouTube.
I called it dreamer due to the
storyline about a girl who
starts watching normal TV
but falls asleep as dreams
that she is watching TV in
different locations.
