R+P Post 11: Our Timeline

We started planning our opening sequence by creating a timeline. We made a timeline in order to plan each shot and the sounds/credits that would go with it. It also gave us a rough idea on how long our opening will be. The timeline was split into three horizontal tracks titled Video Track, Voice Track and Sound Track. The video track consists of the film shots, titles and credits we plan to include. The voice track was for dialogue and voice overs. As our opening has no dialogue, we planned where our radio announcement voice over would go and how long it would last. This also enabled us to plan which shots it would go with. The sound track was for our soundtrack and any sound effects we want to include. This process helped to decide the timings of each shot, voice over and sound effects. 

Our whole timeline

Below are images of each section of our timeline. It has been split into beginning, middle and end. As our sections aren't equal in length they don't follow the template for the sections so I have indicated where each section starts/ends with a black line. 

Beginning

Middle

End

Overall I found that creating the timeline was extremely useful as it meant we had to think carefully and plan out every single shot we intend to include. It was difficult to decide the timings as we can't tell exactly how it will turn out when it is filmed. This will also be helpful when we are editing as we know where each sound effect goes and how long it lasts and the same for the radio announcement.