Music video script template
- 1. Music Video Script Instructions On the following page is a blank table in script format. The rows number themselves automatically, so you can insert or delete rows as the project requires by selecting a row or rows then right-clicking within the selection and clicking on “insert rows or “delete rows”. You can also move rows by dragging The Video column is for descriptions of visuals and should include camera directions, transition descriptions and anything else visually important. You can also insert graphics to better illustrate or storyboard the script. The Audio column is for narration, and music and audio f/x descriptions and direction. The narration should be clearly distinguished from the audio notes (usually the narration in each scene begins with NARR: and the other audio notes are in parentheses or italics, or a different color). The point is to make the narration easy enough to spot that the narration can be read without requiring the reader to search through confusing text. The Audio column is also set to 1.5 spacing – this leaves room for notes. Save this document under a new name and delete these first three pages to create a script using our template.
- 2. Music Video Script Video Title: Back To Black VIDEO AUDIO LYRICS / NARRATION / MUSIC / FX 1. (0:00 – 0:30) Shows Devon drinking Amy Winehouse – Back To Black. wine straight from the bottle and Intro music for 15 seconds dissolves out to a shot of her walking up to the canal. It then “He left no time to regret, kept dissolves to a shot of birds flying his dick wet with his same old away. The narrative then goes back to the start of the relationship safe bet” showing happier times by dissolving to a shot of Devon and Daniel (the couple) being happy together and laughing. 2. (0:31 – 1:00) After portraying the Amy Winehouse – Back To Black. couple to be happy and laughing “Me and my head high and my together the camera then focuses on Devon’s face while she lights a tears dry get on without my guy. cigarette and smokes it which You went back to what you knew symbolizes how everything may not be as happy as it seems. The shot so far removed from all that we then dissolves to a medium shot of went through” her and her friend hugging which again shows to the audience a deeper darkness to the relationship is beginning to show. It again then dissolves back to a shot of Devon smoking again then when the lyric “you go back to what you knew” the shot dissolves to show Daniel sat in a pub with friends without Devon. A close up and extreme close up of Devon’s eyes is then shown to portray her emotions to the audience. The shot then again dissolves to a medium shot of Devon looking away into the distance which could show the audience she is pondering on what to do with her life/relationship.
- 3. Music Video Script VIDEO AUDIO LYRICS / NARRATION / MUSIC / FX 3. (1:01 – 1:30) A shot Devon looking “And I tread a troubled track. out on the canal shows a boat going My odds are stacked ,I'll go by which symbolizes everyone else’s lives going on and continuing back to black. We only said whilst she is stuck in the goodbye with words, I died a situation she’s in and cannot move forward. A shot of a match being hundred times. You go back to lit is then shown with a quick cut her and I go back to…” to a lit candle which symbolizes their relationship.The shot is then quickly cut back to the match and it is being blown out which portrays to the audience the end of Devon and Daniel’s relationship. The video then heads towards it’s darker content by showing a close up of Daniel’s black eye which give the audience a hint as to what is to come. (ONLY UP TO 1:15) 4. (1:31 – 2:00) A medium shot is “I go back to us. I love you shown of Devon sat alone miming much. It's not enough. You love along with the song which is then dissolved into a close up of her blow and I love puff, and life continuing singing. is like a pipe and I'm a tiny” 5. (2:01 – 2:30) “penny rolling up the walls A medium shot is then shown of inside. We only said goodbye Devon and Daniel arguing. A cut is then to a close up of both Devon with words I died a hundred and Daniels face individually to times. You go back to her and I show expression to the audience. A medium shot is then shown again of go back to… We only said goodbye them still screaming at each other with wordsI died a hundred” and throwing stuff across the room at each other. 6. (2:31 – 3:00) A long shot of Devon “times. You go back to her and I sat in the corner of the room with go back to black, black, black, her head in her hands crying is then shown which dissolved out to a black” shot of the horse riders walking down along the river bank away from the camera
- 4. Music Video Script VIDEO AUDIO LYRICS / NARRATION / MUSIC / FX 7. (3:01 – 3:30) Shot of horse riders “black, black, black, I go back walking down along the river bank toI go back to… We only said away from the camera continued which then cuts to a shot of the good-bye with words I died a sun setting behind the railway hundred times” bridge. The shot then cuts again to a medium shot of the back of Devon and she is shaking her head, it then again cuts to a close up of her eyes as she looks away from the camera. The scene it then cut back to the candle which is shown earlier in the video, it is blown out which symbolizes the end of the relationship. It then cuts to a shot of Devon walking away from the camera alone slowly. 8. (3:31 – 4:00) They are back “You go back to her and I go together, it’s still back to… We only said goodbye with words, I died a hundred times. You go back to her and I go back to black” 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26.
- 5. Music Video Script VIDEO AUDIO LYRICS / NARRATION / MUSIC / FX 27. 28. 29. 30.