Process log form

Process log form

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  MUSIC VIDEO PRODUCTION PROCESS LOGJOSH BAILEY
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  PRODUCTION LOG: GUIDANCE • Thisdocument 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.
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  FILMING Explain what workedand didn’t work about your filming and how you managed this covering the following areas: • Technical – For the most part the camera was placed pointing one way and was not moved or tampered with in anyway. There were the odd shots that were supposed to be rotated or swiped to help make diverse transitions in the editing phase but were cut because of time restraints • Logistical – Luckily we had no problems getting to or leaving locations we ended up shooting at however the problems we did have is not having time to film at all locations we initially wanted. Scheduling problems and workplace accidents limited our days to film as well as not having many ours of sun light in a day • Personnel – Before filming we knew some cast and crew would not be here since they have a holiday booked thus we planned to film before they left sometime in the Halloween half term but due to an unforeseen injury this plan was no longer possible. This really limited the time we had left and due to resorting to my plan B we no longer needed a member of the cast, therefore me and my cameraman Alfred had a couple of hours over a 2 day period to complete filming ourselves. • Planning – Because of the events that restricted us from filming, my planning for my original pitch went obsolete, however my contingency plan was very helpful as that ended up being my final product. Making sure I had a plan B was a great he • Next steps – Filming is now done and all that is left is editing and evaluation. Theres not much more in the filming phase I can do given the time that is left but if somehow footage is lost or overwritten then there might have to be some reshoots
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  FILMING – PRODUCTION STILLS
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  EDITING The editing wasarguably the easiest step of production as it mostly involved stitching together footage, although originally it was meant to be much more than just that. Due to the changes in schedule and me having to operate on my plan B the video is much more simplistic as I had hoped, which made an almost care free editing process. There were however some minor problems in editing that were easily fixed thanks to frequent saving and the undo button, such as videos overlapping and deleting footage off the premiere document, considering how long the filming stage took i was lucky I was able to manage the editing so smoothly
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  EDITING – FILE MANAGEMENT Sometime into production I actually purchased a USB drive just to store my work on and make it generally easier to find my files. I still save work on the college computer often just as a backup as well as occasionally sending myself work on my college email. This way I can safely trust that my work has been recently saved and is available where ever I am. A major problem of this however is that the files are saved on software that I do not own at home, making it difficult to actually edit and I'm prove my work
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  EDITING – SETTING UPPREMIERE Depending on whether you’re operating on a Mac or a PC, booting up premiere is a little different on both systems. On a Mac you can easily go to launchpad while on PC you go to the start button. For this project I named my premiere files simply ‘Music Video; to recognise straight which documents are where and what they are for.
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  EDITING – IMPORTING FOOTAGE Toimport my video files onto my premiere pro, all you have to do is open file and import file from where you have saved your videos or rather you can just double click inside the bottom left box and just choose the file to include.
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  EDITING – WORKSPACE I preferto keep my workspace on premiere pro as clean as possible this way I can find footage easily and a nice, simple timeline. Special effects, Sound effects and transitions Sound mixing and intensity Timeline (where I can edit, cut and merge footage) Importing footage and sorting order Slot where I can edit a single clip and add effects Change between the effects, audio, graphics, etc.
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  EDITING – ASSEMBLY EDIT theassembly and organisation are indeed the essence of my product therefore it is of upmost importance that they are in the right order and play for the right duration of time; if one clip was out of place then in turn many other shots would be longer or shorter than needed and off beat with the song. Organising my timeline simple enough as all that was required was to import footage, open it as a clip then place it where it is best. options to resize and slice the clip are available
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  EDITING – REFINEMENT With thedisplayed toolbar i am able to properly refine my timeline to achieve a well edited video without buffers, empty shots and continuity errors. The tools shown are all there help achieve to best edited video you can make. They range from a cursor to help navigate through the many menus, a slice tool to cut clips duration and a magnifying glass to zoom in on the timeline to view more precise and accurate readings of timestamps
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  EDITING – COLOUR CORRECTION/SFX Idid not find that any of my clips recorded for my video were required to have colour fixtures or filters put on them as they came out how i imagined. The aim of my video aesthetics were to be realistic and not formal towards the camera. However, the part of my editing that did take the longest to complete (highlighted in orange) was near the end, where i had the entire video play backwards and sped up. i thought this would be a good way to bring my video to a conclusion
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  EDITING – EXPORT To exportthe final cut of my video all i had to do is go to file > Export and then pick which format i wanted it in. When you click export a large menu appears giving you a range of options to the most obvious and important are the format and the preset. Depending on the quality, FPS and screen ratio of the video you're exporting the presets are different and will automatically assigned to custom so you can make last minute changes. I chose MP4 as it easy to open and edit an MP3 on a wide range of software perhaps more than any other format.