1. Music Video Script
Instructions
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The Video column is for descriptions of visuals and should include camera directions,
transition descriptions and anything else visually important.
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.
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2. Music Video Script
Video Title:
VIDEO
AUDIO
LYRICS / NARRATION / MUSIC / FX
1.
0:00 – 0:30 -
Piano Introduction
Close up of someone playing the
piano – 0.00 – 0.06
Close up of Beth. Shot in front
of the piano. Low lighting.
0.07 – 0.12
“Turn away
If you could get me a drink
Of water, 'cause my lips are
chapped and faded
Call my Aunt Marie”Extreme close
up of Beth, spot light, dark
around her, singing. Hand held
footage. 0.13 – 0.30
2.
0:30 – 1:00 –
“Help her
Gather all my things and
Bury me in all my favorite
colours, my sisters and my
brothers, still”
Close up of Beth. Shot in front
of the piano. Still shot. Low
lighting. 0.14 - 0.42
“I will not kiss you
Cause the hardest part of this
Is leaving you”
Medium shot of Beth sat on the
steps, spotlight, facing away
from the camera. Still shot.
0.43 – 1.00

3. Music Video Script
VIDEO
AUDIO
LYRICS / NARRATION / MUSIC / FX
3.
1:00 – 1:30 –
Fades to next shot.
Instrumental.
“Now turn away
Cause I'm awful just to see
Cause all my hair's abandoned
all my body, Oh, my agony
Know that I will never marry
Baby, I'm just soggy from the
chemo, but counting down the
days to go”
Medium shot, Beth playing the
piano. From the side. Steady
filming, moving round to the
front of the piano, slowly.Low
lighting.
1.01 – 1.30
4.
1:30 – 2:00 -
“It just ain't living
And I just hope you know”
Extreme close up of Beth, spot
light, dark around her, singing.
Hand held footage. 1.31 – 1.42
“That if you say
Goodbye today
I'd ask you to be true”
Medium shot of Beth sat on the
steps, singing, spotlight on
her, dark around her. 1.43 –
2.00

4. Music Video Script
VIDEO
AUDIO
LYRICS / NARRATION / MUSIC / FX
5.
2:00 – 2:30 -
“Cause the hardest part of this
is leaving you,
Cause the hardest part of this
is leaving you”
Medium shot of Beth playing the
piano, shot in front of the
piano. Low lighting. 2.01 – 2.17
Music fades out.
Extreme close up, Beth sat on
the steps, spotlight on her,
dark around her, no singing, one
tear falls. 2.18 – 2.23
Footage fades out.
6.
2:30 – 3:00 -
7.
3:00 – 3:30 -
8.
3:30 – 4:00 -
9.
4:00 – 4:30 -
10.
4:30 – 5:00 -
11.
5:00 – 5:30 -
12.
5:30 – 6:00 -
13.
6:00 – 6:30 -
14.
6:30 – 7:00 -
15.
7:00 – 7:30 -