NW Timeline (October and November)

Posted by Nick

Above is a print screen of our timeline planning sheet for the months of October and November (simply click on the image to enlarge it in a new window).

We have been using our timeline to plan shoots as well as what we will be doing in the lessons, whether we will be working on the digipak, adding to or editing the blog, or capturing footage. Once we have met deadline we set ourselves or feel we have finished what should have been in a certain week, we can tick it off the timeline and move on to other tasks which we need to complete.

From looking at the timeline and knowing ourselves, we can tell that October has been a successful month; our pitch was well received, with all positive feedback coming from our peers which subsequently has helped us to alter our idea to suit our genre. We have also completed reccie’s in this month, showing what locations are suitable to the task. As well as designing and filming our storyboard, compiling our visual ideas into the track so we can see what, hopefully, the finished product will look like. At the end of the October month was half term in which we set our digipak task to design visuals for the album front and back cover, as well as the interior, and also the magazine advertisement.

We are halfway through November at present, and in general we have once again had a successful few weeks so far. We have done a lot of filming, however, we have substituted some digipak designing task which we set on our timeline for editing, because we hadn’t realised the true time scale of using stop motion animation. Our blog has been edited sufficiently, and we have both altered the majority of our blog posts so that our teachers and peers can understand clearer what we have been doing on the course. For the rest of the November weeks to come we will hopefully be able to keep to our timeline, but with the gruelling process of stop motion, as well as having to adopt a wet weather contingency, we are not sure as to what we will be able to film as all our locations are outside, and the weather may mean that we have to postpone shoots which will, as a result, alter what needs to be done each week.

We have used a colour coding system for the timeline, and this has allowed us to easily identify what needs to be done when. The key is as follows:

Blue- Pitch
Yellow- Blog
Pink- Storyboard
Red- Filming
Peach- Capturing
Brown- Digipak
Grey- Booking equipment
Green- Deadlines

The November month is being completed in each lesson, and we have written down what needs to be finished by the end of the month, and once everything is complete, we can move onto planning for the December month, in which we will be compiling footage, interviews, images, voiceover, all for our evaluation task which is to be completed before the term finishes.