TIMELINING

Timelining is the act of using words and times as a first try at linking images, words and music riffs. This helps the group understand the timings and the lyrics and how they might possibly work in the music video.

So with the timeline we can test out which line has a performance element with it, which one has a narrative image with it and which one has something else.

An example of this is that we will have close ups of the instrument being played during the various instrumental breaks. But we can see that with fifeteen intrumental breaks this might be too much , and so we would only continue with five of them. In our song there are around 7 guitar riffs and clearly 7 closeups would be too much, as the audience would know what was next and it would immediatly make the sequence rather boring.

Another example would be that our group has two females that sing and are young and attractive, therfore more appealing for the image that we are trying to portray. The third memeber of the group is a 50 year old man, which would not be as appealing to our group to film multiple shots. So it our timeline we could plan to be more centered on the two girls than the older male who is the instrumentalist. But the man has a very intersestuing face visually, and we might end up shooting lots of shots with him, in the final edit.

With the timline you can see wether images will hold for the time that we have given in the song. So if a line in the song is seven seconds, and you cut on the beat at the end, you need an image that will hold the seven seconds.

I attach copies of my timeline.