Pre-Production: Timeline

In our lesson today, we craftily discussed crucial elements in our video that needed addressing. As we are aware, time is running short; we made an effective and constructive plan of our targets for the end of the week. For example, from listening and strategically remembering an imperative tip from a talk from ‘Polydor Records’, we understand a video should always include a ‘video arc’ in the product to allow a literal build and growth. This is an important point as Phil notified us that the audience usually looks forward to an engaging and climatic element in a music video to possibly represent the artist, genre or style.

Therefore, my group and I agreed to create a timeline and treatment for our music video of exact, clear and realistic details proceeding throughout. For instance, Fran and I primarily began by carefully listening to our track (Pray – Empty Gun) on repeat and consistently thought of what was going to happen in the video by noting areas of scenic change throughout. For example, we found it useful to observe echoes of highs and lows in the song and therefore choose appropriate actions to match the sounds. We agreed, we didn’t want to show all our elements in the first 30 seconds as the viewer could possibly find the video tiresome and conceivably tedious; therefore we preciously tried to separate our main elements out.

Our timeline for our music video so far.

We understand our timeline will probably get changed and will develop further over time but we wanted to create one, so we could visually picture our video so far and see if any changes needed to be made or any additional elements needed to be added. When creating our timeline, we sometimes struggled to prevent repetitiveness as we intended to regularly cut back and forth to the same elements over and over, so therefore we decided we might need to consider developing an element or additionally including one more element to make our video more successfully engaging.