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1. MUSIC VIDEO
PRODUCTION
LOG
ETHAN PAYNE

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

4. FILMING –
PRODUCTION STILLS
Where appropriate add stills from when you were filming,
annotate where necessary

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. Here is the first 30 seconds of my music
video. I have started my video with a
sequence, two shots from the studio, two
shots on location and back to two shots
from the studio. This creates a smooth
flow to the video and helps cut to the beat
of the song.
Here I decided to start to break the
sequence and add more shots from the
studio between the footage from location.
This makes the video more interesting to
watch and makes diversity in the visuals
of the video.

7. Later on in the video I fade the the shot
to black briefly before the chorus starts
where I edit in a still shot which fades
into an opacity overlay where shots of
dresses etc. play overtop. This is
visually different to the beginning of the
video.
I have repeated this technique later on
in the video nearer the end.

8. EDITING –
FILE MANAGEMENT
Screenshot and annotate where you have saved your work
and how you have organised your footage so you know
where it is – this will also include your audio track for your
video and any other images, found footage, etc

9. I have saved my footage in tow different folders. One folder for the
footage from the studio and one folder for the footage from location. This
helped organize my work as I edited the two different storylines
separately then put them together.
This organisation is beneficial because it makes the process of
production mush quicker because you do not need to search through
several files to find the footage you are looking for.

10. EDITING –
SETTING UP PREMIERE
Screenshot and annotate how you have set up a new
Premiere Pro project – indicate what you called it, where you
saved it
You should also show how you set up your timeline,
indicating the video settings used [e.g. DSLR 1080p 25]

11. To set up premiere pro for
editing you firstly open up a
new document. You browse
where you want to save your
new project (Desktop,
Documents etc.) and you
choose what you want to
name the file.
This is the second window
you must select the file type
setting that your footage is
set to depending on what
camera you have used. My
camera shot in AVCHD file
therefore I have set premiere
pro to this. This will allow
the overall footage to be of
its best quality.

12. 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]

13. EDITING –
WORKSPACE
Show and describe the Premiere Pro workspace – preview
window, bins, timeline, playback window, tool bar, audio
levels, etc

14. This is the preview window, this window displays the work you have already
edited in your timeline. When editing my music video I used this window to
watch back the work I had made. This window shows all changes you have
made to footage like speed duration, colour corrections and audio.

15. This is the timeline. The timeline is where you edit your footage. As you can
see the timeline is in seconds and is marked at every 15 seconds on my
project. Dragging the bar at the bottom smaller or larger allows you to the time
more spacious or more closed. When editing I like to time to be marked at
every 5 seconds. The tool bar to the left shows all the different tools that can be
used on the footage. From top to bottom the tools are the selection tool, track
selection tool, ripple edit tool, rolling edit tool, rate stretch tool, razor tool, slip
tool, slide tool, pen tool, hand tool and the zoom tool. On the right of the tool
bar there are four different tabs names Video 1, Video 2, Audio 1 and Audio 2.
These tabs represent the different layers of audio and video you can use, more
can be added to the timeline for a more in depth video. Finally on the far right of
the timeline is the audio meter where the volume of the audio is shown
throughout the video.

16. Another window I used during the production of my music video is this window.
This is the effects window on the left of the timeline where audio and video
effects and transitions such as colour corrections and audio balance can be
added to the audio and video on the timeline. For my video I used colour
corrections such as auto-colour and black and white. I used black and white for
the female characters storyline and used auto-colour on the studio footage to
bring the full quality of colour through.

17. EDITING –
ASSEMBLY EDIT
Show how you put together your basic sequence in the order
you want it – previewing clips, dragging to the timeline,
trimming/cutting, etc
If you have a lip sync, pay special attention to showing how
you synchronised the footage with the audio track

18. EDITING –
REFINEMENT
Show and explain how you have refined and improved your
initial sequence edit

19. EDITING –
COLOUR CORRECTION/SFX
Show and explain your colour correction process/effects
process – use staged screenshots to show each part of the
process and the effect. Explain why you chose to do this

20. 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