R+P Post 11:Our Timeline and Storyboard

Timeline
We created a timeline to help with timings regarding film's our opening sequence. This made it much easier when coming to draw out our storyboard. On our timeline we drew an overall time frame for our opening-two minutes-and within this we laid out several sections where our shots would be "outside", "inside" or part of the "argument" scene. For each section we allocated a set amount of time and within that time we would know how many shots to fit in there from our storyboard.
We also included our title scenes and this helped us to decide where to put them throughout the duration of the open and how many to include. When creating our storyboard we referred back to the timeline a lot and it played a big part in spotting mistakes and reevaluating our decisions.

Storyboard

An example of four of our shots and how we planned them

 We then made a storyboard. Our storyboard consisted of an A2 sheet of sugar paper with post-it notes stuck to it, representing our shot visuals and shot types. The storyboard consisted of 45 shots ranging from close-ups to long shots and our post-it notes were coded accordingly-the mid-shots were green, long shots were blue, titles were yellow and close-ups were purple.
This storyboard was extremely useful in working out the best arrangement of shots and helped us to visualise how our trailer would eventually pan out.