R+P Post 11: Our timeline and storyboard

Our timeline
The first thing we did in order to plan our opening sequence was create a timeline. We did this by gluing pieces of A3 paper together and splitting it into three tracks: video, audio and dialogue. The timeline was used to plan out the rough events that would occur in our sequence and the duration of them. We found the timeline to be extremely useful to refer back to when we created our storyboard.

Our storyboard
We created our storyboard using a large piece of sugar paper and coloured sticky notes, with each colour denoting a shot type. The colour key went as follows:

• Green - Close up
• Orange - Mid shot
• Yellow - Long shot
• Pink - Titles

The colour coding was useful as we could assess whether we had used a variation of shot types, as stated in our task guidelines. We drew the basic shots in pencil on the sticky notes which made it easy to rearrange the order of them and add and remove shots.