Considering my capstone will not be until fall of 13, i broke my timeline kept my timeline in months at this point. using an 8 month plan, I broke my project down into manageable deliverables. An example would be, for month 2 film the live action. My final project will combine live action and cgi. So knowing I need to film live action elements put that piece into one of the monthly blocks. Month 1 is finalize story concept and story board. Again, that is a break down of the overall project. A much needed one, so it gets a month. This also gives me an entire month for " scope creep".
As I get closer to the beginning of spring 13, i will begin to revise the monthly items and add in weekly sections for delivery. Also my adviser said at this point having the monthly breakdown was good.