Is It Out of Scope? — Web development
Is reshooting video scenes out of scope for a web development project?
Yes. Video production and reshoots are outside a development engagement regardless of whether the footage was ever embedded on the site being built.
This request lands on a dev team's desk almost exclusively because a video (produced elsewhere) is embedded somewhere on the site. The reshoot itself — camera, lighting, talent, editing — has nothing to do with development work.
Is it out of scope?
Yes. Reshooting is production work. The dev team's role, if any, is swapping the embedded file once a new version exists — that's the only part of this that's genuinely theirs to do.
Clause typically implicated
Clause typically implicated
Exclusions clause→ — The engagement covers development work; video production and reshoots are excluded as an unrelated discipline.
Example contract wording
Example contract wording (illustrative, not legal advice)
Reshooting is outside what we do under this engagement — that needs to go back to whoever produced the original video. Once the new version's ready, swapping it into the site is a quick, in-scope update.
How MarginFlow flags it
MarginFlow flags video-production requests outside_scope on development contracts by default, and the explanation separates out the narrow in-scope follow-up (re-embedding a finished file) from the production work itself.