1. MUSIC VIDEO
PRODUCTION
PROCESS
LOGHARRY T. DOCWRA

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
To create this shot I turned the opacity
down to 70 to decrease the amount of
grain that was originally in the video, I
then added a black and white filter to
create a more of an eerie, lonely and
emotional tone.
For this shot I turned the opacity 50
to make the trees stand out more
by making them almost loo like
silhouettes and the sun would shine
over me more and make me look
even more like a silhouette.

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
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
To make this shot I actually zoomed in to
cut out people who were walking behind
me by turning scale up to 120. It worked
perfectly and was very helpful in doing
what I wanted it to do. It matched with the
audio perfectly and didn’t affect the
product much.

7. 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]
I named the project “Level 3,
creative media music video”,
this made the video easy to
find in my files.
I saved it into my memory
stick and backed it up to my
H: Drive so I had less of a
chance of it being lost.

8. 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]
I used a memory card to import my videos onto my computer.
I saved them all to my desktop because that was the easiest
place for me to find them. They were safe there and I never
had any difficulty finding any of the clips.

9. EDITING –
WORKSPACE
Show and describe the Premiere Pro workspace – preview
window, bins, timeline, playback window, tool bar, audio
levels, etc
The blue squares on the
timeline are the clips in the
video. The green rectangle
at the bottom is the audio of
the song that is used in the
video. The grey rectangle at
the top is the text that says
the name of the song at the
bottom of the screen
throughout the video. These
are all extremely important
to the product in the final
piece.

10. 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
To put the video in order of the
way I want it I cut up the
footage of me holding the
signs into pieces and placed
other pieces of footage in
between them, this meant I
could keep coming back to the
signs and it wouldn’t be the
only footage being shown in
the video and is not boring.

11. EDITING –
REFINEMENT
Show and explain how you have refined and improved your
initial sequence edit
I moved around the start of the audio so the rest of it would play over scenes that were
fitting for the lyrics.
I added text to the bottom of
the screen to confirm that
the song is not mine and I
avoid getting a copyright
strike when I post the video
on YouTube.
I moved around the start
of the audio s the rest of it
would play over scenes
that were more fitting for
the lyrics.

12. 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
For the colour I added a
black and white filter that
lasts the entire video. I
also changed the lighting
in some scenes to make it
look more dramatic.

13. 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
To export the video I
clicked file, export,
media. Once the video
had finished rendering I
chose to save it as a
Jpeg with a quality of
720p (Pixels).