Music Video Scrpt

1. Music Video Script
Video Title: The 1985 – So Far(It’s Alright)
VIDEO AUDIO
LYRICS / NARRATION / MUSIC / FX
1. 0:00 – 0:30 –
Moving Establishing Shot of
Manchester skyline on the tram.
Medium Close Up of female
character looking towards the
camera.
Moving shot continued
Extreme Close up of a hand
grabbing female characters arm.
Close up & Extreme close up of
female character crying.
Tracking Shot following female
character around Media City,
Salford Quays.
Over the shoulder tracking shot
of female character looking out
over The Quays.
Introduction (5 Secs)
(0:05) Yeah so far, it's
alright, alright, baby (x2)
Yeah so far, it's alright,
alright, baby (x2)
Yeah it's the way we are
We were smoking by 11 and
knocking round town

2. Music Video Script
2. 0:30 – 1:00 –
Hand Held Shot of The Quays
bridge at night with the lights
shining.
Close Up of group of friends
laughing on steps.
Medium Shot of boy balancing and
walking up a hand rail.
Close Up of boy looking and
laughing directly into the
camera.
Long Shot of boy at the top of
the rail throwing his arms in
the arm.
Beat em' ups on my arm
We were never good at selling
Couldn't cut down
And I stay with my father,
while his friends die of
heart attacks
He's got a heart made of
stone but he never gets cold
because the sun's always on
his back
I used to think you're cool
and I believed you had a
wonderful vision,
But I soon found out you're a
terrible friend and your
mother's on the television
Gives a go on your bike, how
you getting along with your
life

3. Music Video Script
3. 1:00 – 1:30 –
Upwards Tracking shot from the
female character’s ice skates
being put on, up towards her
face.
Wide range of Hand Held camera
shots of the female character
with her boyfriend and friends
at ice skating.
Close Up of female character
dances with her boyfriend and
both of them turn towards the
camera smiling.
Hand Held tracking shot of both
the female character and her
boyfriend as they are skating
around the ice skating rink.
It's alright, yeah it's
alright
Yeah so far, it's alright,
alright, baby
Yeah so far, it's alright,
alright, baby
Yeah so far, it's alright,
alright, baby
Yeah so far, it's alright,
alright, baby
Oh well I'm coming to the end
of 23 she said, is that
alright?

4. Music Video Script
4. 1:30 – 2:00 –
Close Up of boyfriend talking into
the camera.
Extreme Close Up of female
character looking into the mirror
and crying, with mascara running
down her face.
Tracking Shot of the couple walking
together.
Medium Wide shot of the couple
hugging and looking out over the
landscape with the faint Manchester
skyline in the distance.
Close Up of female character with
her head in her hand.
Extreme Close Up of a tear rolling
down her face.
Long Shot of the couple holding
hands and walking towards the
camera.
Over the shoulder shot of the coule
walking together.
And it's coming to the end of
you and me she said, is that
alright?
And how can you complain
about life and talk about
being bored
If you just sit at Pete's
house playing video games,
doing sniff that you can't
afford?
I can't be picking up in the
town
So get me one off Adam if
he's sorting you out
I don't really get what all
your friends are about,
I was always looking for a
way to get out,
A true reflection of the size
of your house, a silver spoon
and zoot in your mouth

5. Music Video Script
5. 2:00 – 2:30 –
Variety of hand held tracking
shots of Manchester city centre
and Christmas market.
Long Shot of the couple holding
hands walking up a hill away
from the camera.
Close Up of boyfriend holding
the female character in his arms
as they lookout at the
landscape.
Extreme Close Up of female
character wiping her tears.
Static Close UP of female
character with her hair covering
part of her face as she is
crying.
Long angled Close Up of
boyfriend looking towards the
camera laughing.
But you're alright, yeah it's
alright
Yeah so far, it's alright,
alright, baby
Yeah so far, it's alright,
alright, baby
Yeah so far, it's alright,
alright, baby
Yeah so far, it's alright,
alright.
So here we are, it's quarter
to 11
We're knocking round town
Pushing in, in the bar

6. Music Video Script
6. 2:30 – 3:00 -
Tracking shot showing a 360 degree
shot of bare tree branches and the
sky.
Close Up shot of female character
laughing into the camera on a bed.
Tracking shot of a wall of CDs in a
shop and the female character as
she browses through the CDs.
Hand Held camera shots of
Manchester high-street.
Hand Held Close Up of female
character talking and smiling into
the camera.
Moving Tracking shot of Manchester
at night from the inside of a car.
Close Up of female character hiding
her face away from the camera.
you can cry until 11, it's a
quarter of an hour
And why stay if you hate it
so much?
You think you're well cool,
You just write about sex and
killing yourself and how you
hardly ever
Went to school
Don't you wanna take me up in
the clouds,
Pretend that I'm the one and
you can show me about,
She was talking marriage so
we had to get out,
Now he's making up for it by
sleeping about
The ultimatum's a ridiculous
joke
I'm gonna pick the option
that allows me to smoke

7. Music Video Script
7. 3:00 – 3:30 –
Medium Close Up of the couple
smiling and facing each other.
Continued moving Tracking shot
of Manchester from within the
car.
Long Shot of female character
smiling as she is ice skating.
Tracking Shot downwards on the
group of friends lay each step
of the stairs, looking towards
the camera.
Medium Shot of boyfriend with
his arm around the female
character as she is checking her
phone.
Static Medium Shot of boyfriend
shoving female character and
grabbing her arm violently.
Extreme Close Up of female
character chest as she reveals a
bruise on her collar bone from
underneath her top.
Cross Cuts between Close Ups of
the female character crying and
her boyfriend grabbing her.
Close up downward tracking shot
of the female character as she
reveals more bruises on her arms
But I'm alright, yeah it's
alright
Yeah so far, it's alright,
alright, baby
Yeah so far, it's alright,
alright, baby
Yeah so far, it's alright,
alright, baby
Yeah so far, it's alright,
alright, baby
8. 3:30 – 3:55 –
Extreme Close Up of female
characters bruises on her arm in
the mirror.
Close up of female characters
face with mascara smudge and
running down her face with
tears.
Over the shoulder close up shot
of the female character as she
looks up towards the mirror
glancing in the direction of the
camera.
Black background shot of the
Bands name in white followed by
the music videos credits and
song title.
Shot of black background at the
end.
Instrumental Ending of the
song

8. Music Video Script