Under the guidance/direction of my mentor, I did my timeline according to the provided form. I met with my mentor and together we mapped out the most essential milestones (the end of shooting, rough edit dates, etc.) From there, I planned as best as I could anticipate what I would do and what I would get done each week. Of course, some of these are virtually impossible to predict with great accuracy, but at least it provides a list of milestones and a rough idea of what order things will be done in.
Interestingly, the timeline I did is only for next semester. Rather than putting in the work I'm doing this semester, my mentor suggested that I go ahead and put everything in the timeline as if I was going to do the whole project in one semester. This is what I did, but this obviously would make for an incredibly difficult semester, especially given that I will be taking the capstone class as part of a full 15 credit hour semester. The idea with my timeline, however, is that I will obviously accomplish a fair amount of the content of it, especially the earlier parts, this semester. This will give me leniency in the timeline, and allow me to spend more time making sure I do the best job I can. For instance, if my timeline says I should be doing some shooting and some editing in a particular week, but I have already done all the necessary shooting this semester, not only does that relieve me of the stress of trying to balance shooting and editing in the same week, but it frees me up to spend more time editing. The overall idea is that this timeline, if I followed it exactly, would be just barely able to be accomplished, but it would be possible, so I have about half a semester this fall to get ahead, giving myself some leeway and making sure I can do a really good job, and not just one that gets by.
