R+P Post 20: My Music Video timeline

We produced a timeline in order to lay out solid, concise ideas for the music video's structure, shots, and so on, rather than leaving everything split up across all the research and planning documents we had created so far. Having everything all on one large piece of paper, with shots laid out in chronological order with text descriptions and accurate times to match up with the song, was a really big help in organising our thoughts and finalising our planning.

A picture of our entire timeline. I will provide closer pictures when talking about relevant sections, but hopefully this overview still allows you to see how we managed to pack as much concise and useful detail on the final plans for our music video onto one sheet, that we can reference whenever we need it. This includes shots with shot types and text descriptions, some lyrics, accurate timings, and more. Click to enlarge.

Our planned structure is to work around the lyrics- we broke the timeline up into verses and choruses, and we timed the lengths of certain sections, particularly the narrative sections, around the lyrics we were interpreting. We even allocated the time for the outro scene that takes place once the song itself has ended.

An example of part of our timeline- this is the end section. You can see where we have marked off the choruses along the line, and drawn in the details for the shots around it. You can also see the outro right at the end, as well as the large party scene that takes place just before it. Click to enlarge.

Overall the timeline was a very useful document to create. We achieved our aim of consolidating and finalising our ideas onto one sheet, and we created the first detailed structure for our video- we can even look at the timeline while editing the footage to guide us.