Is It Out of Scope? — Web development
Is producing an extra explainer video out of scope for a web development project?
Yes. Video production isn't a development discipline, regardless of whether the finished video ends up embedded in the site the dev team built.
As with other video requests, this one typically lands with a dev team because a first video (produced elsewhere) is already embedded on the site they built — not because producing video content is anything they do.
Is it out of scope?
Yes. Producing an explainer video — scripting, filming or animating, editing — is a production discipline with no overlap with development work.
Clause typically implicated
Clause typically implicated
Exclusions clause→ — The engagement covers development work — video production is excluded outright as an unrelated discipline.
Example contract wording
Example contract wording (illustrative, not legal advice)
Producing a video isn't something we do under this engagement — that's outside development. I can embed and integrate whatever's produced once it's ready, but the production itself needs to go to a video specialist.
How MarginFlow flags it
MarginFlow flags video production requests outside_scope on development contracts by default, with the explanation offering the narrower, genuinely in-scope follow-up (embedding the finished video) once it exists.