Video Production Lessons Learned
This is a practical guide to building a lessons learned for a video production project — what went well and badly, captured to improve future projects, adapted to the realities of producing a video or film.
What a Lessons Learned is
A lessons learned is what went well and badly, captured to improve future projects. For the full concept and how it works in general, see Lessons Learned. On a video production project it plays the same role, tuned to this kind of work.
Why it matters for a Video Production project
Video Production projects live or die on producing a video or film. A well-built lessons learned gives the team a shared, explicit reference for exactly that — reducing ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, and making problems visible early enough to act. Skipping it, or doing it generically, is how video production projects drift into avoidable delay and cost.
What to include
- What happened
- Impact
- Root cause
- Recommendation
Video Production-specific considerations
Tailor the lessons learned to the risks that most often derail video production projects:
- Creative revisions
- Shoot logistics
- Post-production timelines
Example
On a real video production project, the lessons learned would be shaped by producing a video or film. In particular, it should explicitly account for the project’s biggest risks — creative revisions, shoot logistics, post-production timelines — rather than treating them as afterthoughts.