The document provides guidance for tracking the production process of a music video. It includes sections for filming and editing with prompts to explain technical issues, logistics, personnel, planning, problems that arose, and lessons learned. For filming, the creator describes using different cameras depending on lighting conditions and issues with locations, personnel, and rushed planning. For editing, positives included software skills, fixing shots, and smoothing transitions, while problems encompassed inconvenient locations, software version errors, and unusable shots requiring reshoots. Main lessons learned centered around not skipping steps, better planning, and understanding time-consuming aspects.

1. MUSIC VIDEO
PRODUCTION
PROCESS LOG
ALEX ELSWORTH

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?

4. TECHNICAL
For the majority of my clips, I used my DSLR camera I bought
for GCSE photography. However in more difficult lighting
conditions, It was easier for me to stick my phone onto the
tripod as it would do a better job at managing the lighting
conditions for filming. During the recording of myself, I had
spotify playing through my phone for some shots however
some I just read the lyrics I needed to read and would say
them which lead to some shots not being completely acurate
to the timing of the video so I then had to change the speed
that some clips ran at to make them work with the song.

5. LOGISTICAL
I had some issues when it came to accessing certain
locations. This was because of my dicorced parents living 30
mins apart so it was always as easy as picking up my camera
and heading to where I wanted to film a shot. I instead would
have to wait for certain times of the week so I could be at the
appropriate house for filming the shots I needed. I never ran
into any access problems, the only other thing I had to work
around was if I needed others in the shots I needed and
making sure they were available at the same time’s, however
that turned out to be easier than I originally expected it to be.

6. PERSONNEL
I'm really grateful that the people who helped me with my
video helped where they did, however they caused some
issues. If someone was using the camera to film me, they
were not always as familiar with DSLR’s so the focus was not
always right. It was also difficult to see how perfect a shot
was on the small screen featured on the camera so some
shots left me annoyed when I opened them on a larger
computer monitor only to find things would look worse than
they did on the camera. When it also came to filming shots
with others in, theyre lyrics were not always up to speed with
the song or they said the worng thing so I had to try hide
errors like that where and when I could during the editing
process.

7. PLANNING
When I was filming my video, I realised that I had rushed
areas of my planning as at the time I thought that it would
have been all I needed. But when it came to the filming, I
would be staring at my laptop screen not knowing what the
specifics of some shots were. This meant I had to go back to
the documents during free time I had to try go into more
detail and make things more clear to me as then I was at that
first shooting day with some friends, I had to try figure out
what I wanted quickly on the spot and that meant some shots
did not turn out as well as they could have if I had not rushed
my planning so much.

8. EDITING
• Record your edit progress, decisions, problems, etc. in
this section
• Include screenshots with annotations, statements, etc
where possible
• 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
• Pick notable moments in the editing process and discuss
them, what worked/didn’t work and why, how you adjusted
to problems. Discuss how you worked and what you
learned from the process

9. WHAT WENT WELL
[3 EXAMPLES]
• Before coming to college, I was already familiar with a
selection of Adobe’s programs including Premier Pro. This
was helpful as the time I would have spent learning the
software was instead spent being more productive
• It was my opportunity to fix some shots that on there own
did not work well with the song. I could cut bits out and
change the speed if someone did not say the lyrics fast
enough
• It a cut from one clip to another looked rough (for example
it was 2 shots in the same location and I suddenly moved
from one side to the other) I was able to implement things
to make the transitions look smoother

10. WHAT PROBLEMS DID
YOU HAVE? [3
EXAMPLES]
• During editing, I had to edit some shots and film more later as
the difficulty of living in different locations proved to be much
more inconvenient than I was hoping it would have been, making
my productivity less efficient.
• I worked on some editing at home and my copy of premier was
running on a newer version than the school computers so when I
brought my files back to college, I encountered an error stopping
me from editing as the file was now too new for the college
computers, however I managed to later update the college
software but that error meant I lost a day in college I could have
spent editing
• Some shots did not end up working when I came to editing them
so I had to do some reshoots for the ones I was not happy with
which slowed down my editing process.

11. NEXT STEPS…
What are the main things you’ve learned from this project? Pick a
minimum of 5 to discuss…
• I have learnt that its important to not skip things as they’re more
important than you might realise
• I have a better understanding of what is and isn’t time
consuming and to plan future projects with that knowledge
• Its important to add detail in select areas as it will make the later
productivity smoother and faster
• I discovered the meaning of more effects used in filming that I
would have otherwise missed
• I learnt tricks that can be used in video that is pleasing to the eye