Is It Out of Scope? — Web development
Is adding motion graphics to a video out of scope for a web development project?
Yes. Motion design is production work with no overlap with development, regardless of where the finished video is embedded.
As with other video-adjacent requests on a dev engagement, this one usually surfaces because the video lives on a page the dev team built — not because motion design is anything they do.
Is it out of scope?
Yes. Adding motion graphics is production and animation work, entirely separate from building the page the video plays on.
Clause typically implicated
Clause typically implicated
Exclusions clause→ — The engagement covers development work — video and motion design production is excluded as an unrelated discipline.
Example contract wording
Example contract wording (illustrative, not legal advice)
Adding motion graphics to the video isn't development work, so it's outside this engagement — that needs a motion designer or the original video producer. Once an updated version exists, swapping it in is a quick update on our end.
How MarginFlow flags it
MarginFlow flags motion-graphics and video-production requests outside_scope on development contracts consistently, mirroring how it treats other video-production asks on this contract type.