Music video script second draft
- 1. Music video first draft script The Killers- Spaceman Screen writer: Denni Hepburn
- 2. Music video first draft script Video Title: The Killers - SPACEMAN VIDEO AUDIO LYRICS / NARRATION / MUSIC / FX 1. *WALKING INTO BUILDING FROM CAR* Band talking, laughing. *CARRYING EQUIPMENT FROM VIHICAL* Close ups/Medium Shot Hand held filming *Quick cut to next shot* 2. *WALKING INTO MAIN DOORS* Close up on feet Low angle *Blur to next shot* 3. *FILM LYRIC SHEET/NOTES Introduction SHEET/EQUIPMENT* BLACK AND WHITE THROUGHOUT REST Close ups, blurry background OF THE VIDEO. Hand held filming slowly 4. *FILM DRUMMER PERFORMING IN THE (0.12)Drums come in RECORDING STUDIO* Close ups on instrument Still shots on a tripod *Cut to next shot* 5. *FILM SOUND PANEL AND SPEAKERS* (0.19)Second round of background Close ups/Medium shots vocals Hand held filming *Cut to next shot* 6. *FILM VOCALIST PERFORM* (0.26) Main vocals come in Close-up on microphone and “It started with a low light, vocalist. Not much of the face is Next thing I knew they ripped me in shot. Mainly the mouth and from my bed microphone. And then they took my blood Still shot on a tripod type” *Cut to next shot* 7. *FILM VOCALIST’S FOOT TAP TO DRUM (0.33) “It left a strange BEAT* impression in my head” Close up Vibration on the screenat drum Still shot beat *Cut to next shot*
- 3. Music video first draft script VIDEO AUDIO LYRICS / NARRATION / MUSIC / FX 8. *FILM ARTISTS GOING THROUGH THE (0.38) LYRICS* “You know that I was hoping, Close up, medium shot That I could leave this star- Hand held crossed world behind” DISSCUSION ABOUT LYRICS Vocalist makes a ripping actionat.(0.45) “But when they cut me open” *Cut to next shot* 9. *FILM ARTISTS LITENING BACK TO (0.50)SOUND RECORDER PERSON RECORDING* TELLING THE ARTISTS ABOUT PARTS Wide shot, medium shot OF THE RECORDING Close up on artists and sound recorder person *Cut to next shot* Hand held filming 10. *FILM DRUMMER MIMING THE DRUMS (0.51) LISTENING TO THE RECORDING BACK* “And you know I might” Medium shot *cut to next shot* 11. *FILM VOCALIST SINGING* (0.53) Medium shot. “Have just flown too far from the floor this time, Cause they're calling me by my name” *Cut to next shot* 12. *FILM BAND PERFORM* (1.04) Wide shot, close ups “And the zipping white light Steady filming beams Disregards the bombs and satellites” *Cut to next shot* 13. *FILM VOCALIST* (1.10) Close up “That was the turning point Steady filming That was one lonely night” *Cut to next shot*
- 4. Music video first draft script VIDEO AUDIO LYRICS / NARRATION / MUSIC / FX 14. *FILM BAND PERFORM IN RECORDING (1.16) STUDIO* “The star maker says, „It ain't Wide shot so bad‟ Fish eye effect The dream maker's gonna make you Hand held filming mad” Different angles *Cut to next shot* 15. *FILM WHOLE ROOM* “The spaceman says, Wide shot „Everybody look down, Steady filming It's all in your mind‟“ Fast forward. *Cut to next shot* 16. *FILM ARTISTS” “Well now I'm back at home, and Hand held filming I'm looking forward to this life Artists filming each otherrecording I live writing lyric. You know it‟s gonna haunt me Fast shots So hesitation to this life I give” *Cut to next shot* 17. *FILM VOCALIST* “You think you might cross over, Close up You're caught between the devil Steady filming and the deep blue sea Vocalist sat down on stairs, very You better look it over, lit up shot. Before you make that leap” *Cut to next shot*
- 5. Music video first draft script VIDEO AUDIO LYRICS / NARRATION / MUSIC / FX 18. *FILM BAND PERFORM IN RECORDING “And you know I'm fine, STUDIO* But I hear those voices at night Wide shots, close ups sometimes- Steady filming Different angles *FILM BAND LISTENING BACK TO TRACK* They justify my claim, Band all clap to drum beat. And the public don't dwell my Close ups on artists. Wide Shots. transmission Blur then in focus. Cause it wasn't televised But, it was the turning point, Oh what a lonely night” *Cut to next shot* 19. *FILM BAND AND SOUND RECORDER “The star maker says, "It ain't PERSON EDITING AND LISTENING BACK so bad" TO SONG* The dream maker's gonna make you Close ups, wide shots mad Hand held filming The spaceman says, "Everybody look down It's all in your mind" *Cut to next shot* 20. *FILM BAND PERFORM* “The star maker says, "It ain't Wide shot so bad" Steady filming The dream maker's gonna make you mad The spaceman says, "Everybody look down It's all in your mind" *Cut to next shot* 21. *FILM EDITING ON COMPUTER SCREENS* (2.44) *Cut to next shot* 22. *FILM VOCALIST TAP TO DRUM BEAT* (2.50) Close up. *Cut to next shot*
- 6. Music video first draft script VIDEO AUDIO LYRICS / NARRATION / MUSIC / FX 23. *FILM VOCALIST SINGING WITH “My global position systems are MICROPHONE IN AN EMPTY SPACE* vocally addressed Close ups, wide shots They say the Nile used to run Zooming in and out slowly from East to West, They say the Nile used to run... From East to West. *Fade to next shot* *FILM VOCALIST ON STAIRS* And you know I'm fine Sat down, looking towards the But I hear those voices at night window. Sometimes...” Very lit up shot. Steady filming. *Cut to next shot* *Zoom into vocalist, zoom out to all the band being there performing* *In colour* 24. *FILM WHOLE BAND PERFORM IN EMPTY “The star maker says, "It ain't SPACE* so bad" Bright lights, colourful. The dream maker's gonna make you Close ups, wide shots mad Steady filming The spaceman says, "Everybody look down It's all in your mind" X2 *Fade to next shot* *Black and white* 25. *FILM BACK IN “It's all in my mind RECORDING STUDIO FINISHING TRACK, It's all in my mind MESSING AROUND and BAND FILMING It's all in my mind EACH OTHER* It's all in my mind Hand held filming It's all in my mind” Close ups *Fade to next shot* *OUTRO*
- 7. Music video first draft script VIDEO AUDIO LYRICS / NARRATION / MUSIC / FX 26. *FILM PACKING AWAY EQUIPMENT* *4.14* Wide shot *fast forward* Steady filming *Fade to next shot* 27. *FILM BAND TURNING LIGHTS OFF IN *4.20* THE STUDIO and WALKING OUT* Close up *Fade to next shot* 28. *FILM FINISHED CD ON TABLE WITH THE *4.27* BANDS NAME AND SONG WRITTEN ON IT* Hand held filming Fades to darkness. 29. END.*4.36*