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 – 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 Technical: Green screen: I got the green screen from the booking equipment on blackboard. It arrived on the day that I needed it for filming. I used in the room that I booked and used in the same way that Peter Gabriel did for the original sledgehammer video. The method I did for this was lying over the green screen screen while filming. In which we would have to flatten it out so that not creases affect the image while editing. Camera: Any camera work that we did while filming we had a few technical problems like changing the FPS as we didn’t know how to do it at the time. We also had a problem with the tripod as we found it hard to attach the camera to it, with it having to be screwed into to the bottom of the camera. Logistical: Most of what I filmed was filmed indoors with me not having to got any specific location to film my video. I still had to book out a room for what I was doing with me using the booking website on blackboard. Personnel: We were going to be filming a day early than what we originally hoped but the cameraman didn’t turn up. So we had to postpone the filing to another day because we didn’t know how to work the camera, despite the fact that we already had the equipment and the room. Planning: Planning was definitely a beneficial factor with me doing the storyboards and shot list as it gave me a vague idea of what I wanted for each shot. It was doing theses shots what made me think about how they were going to look. Coming up with a schedule for my editing and filing also helped me plan out what I was going to do despite the fact that plans change. Next steps: There were some shots that weren't realistic enough so it ended up not being realistic enough to in the editing process. One of theses shot was going to be a miniature Christmas tree coming out of my mouth for one shot. This would have been done by there being a shot where I open mouth. Then with the editing it would have come out of my mouth, but the more we thought about it, the more difficult it was to edit. There was also a lot of shots that I filmed that weren't originally in my storyboards or shot list like the shot with the lights going on and off, and the shot with the light machine projecting onto my face.
- 5. FILMING – PRODUCTION STILLS We had a shot where the light machine was going to be projecting onto my face. But we cut as we thought it didn’t look right and we couldn’t really edit with it. There has been clips as short as a few seconds that I have had to cut because you can see in it that I'm smiling.
- 6. 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.
- 7. EDITING – SETTING UP PREMIERE The first I did was open up Adobe Premiere Pro and open up a new project file. I named this project the little drummer boy remix and put in my Adobe premiere Pro documents location. I then clicked ok and I was on the software. I set my video settings that were on my timeline to DSC_0118p. My timeline was open ready for my clips to be imported and weren’t on any other section such as the effects or the markers.
- 8. EDITING – IMPORTING FOOTAGE The next thing I did was import all the clips onto Adobe Premiere Pro with the clips that I had filmed and uploaded into my documents on my computer. I did this by going on file and under it is import, where it will take me to my documents. I highlighted all the clips using the mouse and pressed import, to where all the clips imported onto the software. Once these clips were imported they were in my timeline selection and I could just drag them across to my editing selection to begin editing them.
- 9. EDITING – FILE MANAGEMENT With all my clips imported onto the software, I then saved my work so that all my document was save. I went onto file that was on the top left and went into save as. I saved this file into my desktop so I could easily find it whenever I turned my computer on and pressed save to where it saved into my desktop. All my clips that were on my timeline I put in order from I wanted from the look of the thumbnail in the video. This made it much easier when putting my clips into my editing section. I also at this point imported the clips that I was going to have in the background of the screen that will be used for the green screen shots. Where I saved my work Volume control
- 10. EDITING – ASSEMBLY EDIT All the clips that I had on my timeline were already in order. So all I had to do was put the clips that were in the timeline into the editing sequence. These clips that I had imported needed cutting in some area as there were stages in the clips where I was in character. For instance I'm talking about lighting in one of them, so I had to cut that clip. I could see the clip through the program monitor that was in the middle of the screen. I edited each clip separately and once they were edited. I put them in a single row going across. Once all these clips were in my timeline I muted the whole line so you wouldn’t get any talking that was raw in the clip.
- 11. EDITING – REFINEMENT For the first few clips that were in the editing section, I edited them by changing the speed. The first thing I did was right click the clip and selected the speed. I then turned the percentage of the clip down. When it came to the clips that I edited in the end did the same thing. By right clicking the clip, selecting speed and then this time clicked the reverse speed box, meaning that the clip is now going back in time. Also at the beginning of the video I needed the title in the music video. I did this by selecting the type tool, that’s the T that’s on the left side of the editing selection, and then placed the box in the program monitor and stretched it to how long I wanted it for.
- 12. EDITING – COLOUR CORRECTION/SFX Whenever I needed to change the colour of the video I was editing. I dragged the marker across so that it was hovering over the video. Then I clicked onto colour which was the four selection on the editing on the top. When it came to the shots where the lights going out and the lighting keeps changing a different colour. That it when I used this tool the most. I did this by using the razor tool that was on the left side of the editing selection and cut the clip into several parts. Cutting it whenever I came onto the screen and changed the colour of the whole clip. However there were some colours that were quite bright and had to use the razor tool before it cut into the darkness because it was still noticeable and didn’t blend in. I did all these different colour variations with just the shadow tint alone and changed the adjustments if I thought the colour didn’t blend in well with the clip.
- 13. EDITING – GREEN SCREEN When it came to editing the background of the clips that featured the green screen. I started by editing this by clicking on the clip that I wanted to edit. I clicked effects controls and when into keying. By clicking on this, I went under it and clicked onto ultra key, dragging it down to the editing section, putting it under the clip that I wanted edited. This made the background black. The reason this done is so that background look smoother and any crease that were originally on the green screen cant be caught on the footage now. I then placed the clips that I had imported in the timeline into my editing section. I edited these clips by duplicating the video. This was done by right clicking the clip and copying. The next thing I did was go to the top left section that said edit and pasted it into my editing selection. I next went into editing, effect controls and concentrated on motion. This involves changing the position and scale of the image. Through measurements that can be selected by changing it to how you want through the mouse. If there was something that was in the duplicated image that overlapped the image. Then I would need to crop it. This can be done by going onto your timeline selecting video effects, scrolling down to transform and then clicking crop. This should show up on the editing tab on the top left and you will be able to crop it from all angles through the measurements that are similar to the motion controls.
- 14. EDITING – EXPORT Once I had finished editing, I began to export my video. I went onto file, went into export and dragged across to media. I gave an output name of “the little drummer boy finished version” and selected “maximum render quality”. So it would take longer to render but the quality would be really good. The next thing I did was save into my desktop and rendered the video waiting for it to upload. Once I had finished rendering I was able to access it from my documents, which I did. Uploading it onto YouTube. So that I can put it on my blogger account.