Mv process log form 2019
- 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 –The camera I was using worked perfectly, my stand was a cardboard box and kitchen container so there wasn’t much that could mechanically go wrong, the lighter I used on the fire worked fine as well. • Logistical – The location was easy to access and I had no trouble getting the filming done. The ground was very damp, which was irritating but that was the only issue. • Personnel – The entire cast and crew was me, so I didn’t have a problem with personnel. • Planning – Both my original plan and back-up plan were scrapped due to events that couldn’t have been planned around or predicted. The finished video was entirely improvised both during filming and editing. • Next steps – I had to fundamentally reimagine the entire video twice and after that I changed what song I’d use another 2 times so the only thing I know going forth is to expect that literally everything goes wrong with anyone else involved in the project, so that I can plan ahead, I’ll also make sure that my projects can mostly be done by me alone.
- 4. FILMING – PRODUCTION STILLS Where appropriate add stills from when you were filming, annotate where necessary In the foreground there’s a bit of wet tarmac, a field of thistles and nettles in the background and a patch of grass on which the fire was lit in the middle. For equipment I had a lighter, a bag of scrap paper and 2 large bottles of water.
- 5. EDITING My first part of editing the video, at first had nothing to do with the source video, instead I worked on the small animations seen throughout in Photoshop. First I would create a black rectangle across the whole piece, then I would create three transparent layers. On the first layer I would draw either a small doodle that would play constantly throughout the video or the titles and chorus. I would draw onto one layer in a pale cream colour. (I used the black rectangle to contrast against so I could actually draw properly.) After drawing a sketch that I thought the was good enough I would turn the opacity down on the first layer and sketch over the original layer on a second one I would go through the process again. After making these 3 layers I would delete the black rectangle and turn the opacity up to the max, created a frame animation and rendered the animation as a video.
- 6. EDITING Secondly I would use After Effects to animate and position the animations to later be used in Premiere. In After Effects I would import the source video in and position the 3 frame videos. After I was happy with the videos I would stack the clips on top of each over until I could compose them into a few second composition, I would then stack those compositions until they were minutes long. I would then compose all the separate animations along with the source so that I could just put it straight into Premiere.
- 7. EDITING I imported the After Effects clips into Premiere as well as the song so that I could get the timing of the edits frame perfect. In Premiere I went almost frame-by- frame through the audio, placing text for the verses and a few animations for the choruses. I used a font called “Cows & Aliens” as it fit a 60’s aesthetic.
- 8. EDITING – FILE MANAGEMENT I saved the After Effect animations and Premiere files in my “Document” folders as I had very few files to worry about and as I did the editing very quickly I wasn’t confused about where things were.
- 9. EDITING – SETTING UP PREMIERE I built the majority of the video in After Effects and imported the project directly into Premiere, as such I will show how I set up After Effects. First you import (or drag) a video file into your media tray (middle left) and drag the clip into the third icon from the right on the bottom of the tray. Doing this composes the whole project to the same specs as the original clip, in this case 25fps and 1080p.
- 10. EDITING – IMPORTING FOOTAGE First I exported the After Effects Project as a Premiere Pro Project. I then opened the new premiere project, with all the clips I required within.
- 11. EDITING – WORKSPACE This is the toolbar, this contains different simple tools that can be used on the timeline, like a selector tool, a razor or a text tool these can ether be applied directly to the preview window or the timeline This is the Project panel in which all the media used in the project is kept, from video to audio files and graphics. This is the timeline, onto which the text, video clips and audio can be moved around the project as well as cut, stretched and given effects like colour correction. The composition of the timeline is the main factor that plays into the complete product. This is the preview panel where the video can be ran through. You can also go frame by frame through the video and add markers as well as other operations.
- 12. EDITING – ASSEMBLY EDIT First I imported the base footage and the animations from After Effects and added the song as a audio track. This was simple because these elements stayed fairly constant throughout the video, apart from the first nine seconds where the credits are. So I added in 9 seconds that I cut out in After Effects so I could time the credits to the music in Premiere.
- 13. EDITING – REFINEMENT After getting the “base” of the video onto the timeline I would then go nearly frame by frame for the start and end of every line in the song so I could get the timing perfect for each piece of text. I did the same for the chorus. I then added a small fade to black at the end of the video, I feel that the minimal editing made the video not only easier to edit for someone who never edited video seriously before, but also gave the video a simple charm.
- 14. EDITING – COLOUR CORRECTION/SFX I didn’t use any colour correction or SFX, it not only would’ve made the production longer but would’ve also interfered with the simple, naturalistic aesthetic I was aiming for.
- 15. EDITING – EXPORT I first went to File > Export > Media and got met with the export settings window and set it up to the project specs and added the project to my. Media Encoder 2020 queue. After the queue was finished I was left with an .MP4 file which I named “finished MV”