R+P Post 20: My Music Video Timeline

A picture of our timeline 

We created a timeline in order to properly map out all the ideas that we had for our video. In order to create seperate sections of the video we decided to split our chosen song into different verses. This was very helpful to us as it meant that we were able to decided how we were going to encorporate our two seperate narratives together. For example, the close up that I have included below shows our decision to keep the chorus section of the song as the 'studio narrative', i.e lip synch section, then switching to the 'unamed boy' narrative during the chorus. These decisions were vital to our video as it effected how well the story was able to flow. It also meant that we were able to decide how long each shot would last within our video. This is another key element to a music video as it is important to create a variety of different shot lengths. For example, originally our idea had been to create an opening with very long shots, however, we soon realised that cutting our opening shots to the fast beat would be more effective.