Timelining

Timelining is the act of placing words and images with timings in the song however, this is only a first try attempt as the storyboard will go further into it. The crucial thing with the timeline is to test out whether it works with the song. This helps the production group to adapt the timings in the song to the images, it uses the lyrics in the song as well as riffs in the song to divide up the song. This enables the production group to see what works and what does not work with the song lyrics and timings.

In our song there are around 7 guitar riffs, this called us a problem for several reasons. We knew we couldn't have extreme close ups for every guitar riff as this would leave the audience expecting what is coming next. It might also bore the audience because they have seen the shot several times so may get restless. This would mean we would have to choose different shots for each riff or vary the shots in order to keep the audience interested and on edge with our video. Due to us not wanting to bore the audience we had to vary the shots we used so we had extreme close ups mixed with long shots.

Another example would be that our group has two females that sing and are young and attractive. The third member of the group is a 50 year old man. So in our timeline we could plan to be more centred around the young and attractive girls than the older, male instrumentalist. But the man has a very interesting face visually which would work on screen, so we may end up shooting lots of close ups of him. I attach copies of my timeline.