process log form

1. MUSIC VIDEO
PRODUCTION
PROCESS
LOG
HERBIE NELSON

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
What worked well:
Not much really worked well in terms of camera equipment
being used as I left it a bit to late to film my music video,
which resulted in me having to use my camera on my phone.
As I filmed the video on my phone, I forgot to have the phone
in landscape mode so that meant it was filmed in portrait
which isn’t that helpful when I came to trying to edit what I
had filmed. I had originally planned to film some people lip
syncing to the song and have some nature shots within the
video but as I said I left it too late and had to do as best as I
could within the time frame I had left.

5. LOGISTICAL
Most of these slides will be very similar as I've said in the
previous slide there wasn’t much else to the video I filmed as
all the video is of me lip syncing to a song of my choosing.
Originally, I had planned a big video I was going to film in
Leeds with some of my mates or if they were busy then my
brother had agreed to help with the filming of the video but
unfortunately, I had left it till the last minute which is on my
part and had to film what I could to at least show that I had
recorded some form of a music video.

6. PERSONNEL
I had no cast nor crew as the only person involved with this
video was myself. Like I said originally, I had planned a cast
and a crew but some of them were unavailable at the time I
wanted to film which meant that I had to use myself as the
main person in the video.

7. PLANNING
I had planned out lots of locations where I wanted to film certain bits for the
music video which are shown on the left. The two maps on the right are the
routes in which I was going to travel to get from one location to the other and
how long it would take to get to each area. The maps helped me figure out if I
could have done the filming all in one day, but to get to each location would
have taken quite a while so it meant going back and forth per day.

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]
• For starters this is the first project I had ever done where it
involved editing and using software like premiere pro, so I
think learning the basics on the editing software and
understanding how to add different things into my project
for example adding the actual song that was being played
and making sure it was playing at the same speed that I
was lip syncing to.
• Another thing that went well was planning out where I
wanted to film the music video and showing each location
on my planning PowerPoint so that I had a clear
understanding of where I wanted to film and which
locations fitted best.

10. WHAT PROBLEMS DID
YOU HAVE? [3
EXAMPLES]
• One problem that I had was trying to get the people I
wanted in my video to be free for a certain day which was
very difficult as some of them had to work certain hours or
some of them were busy doing other things.
• I underestimated how much time I was going to put into
the project and soon realised that I needed to put lots of
time and effort into the project, this was something I didn’t
really do.
• I thought I was also able to edit the project outside of
college hours Aswell, however this couldn’t happen as my
computer wouldn’t allow me to download the correct
editing software, so this also became a problem for me
and the project.

11. NEXT STEPS…
What are the main things you’ve learned from this project?
Pick a minimum of 5 to discuss…