My practical production treatment for my music video

1. Music Video – Practical Production Treatment
Audio: Music and Lyrics Time Images/Shots
INTRO 0.00-0.05 Shot on each beat (1, 2, 3, 4):
1- Open fridge
2- Pick up beer
3- Open beer
4- Drink
INTRO 0.06-0.16.5 Several shots of the band playing at different angles. Individual focus on
band members
INTRO 0.17-0.18 Close up shot of Jack playing the chords on guitar
INTRO – End of 0.18-0.22 1 2 3 4 + - a cliché transition from band playing to next scene.
‘I would say I’m sorry if I thought that it would
change your mind’
0.24-0.29 Shot of guy in kneeling position (lead role) talking to a plant (indoor).
The plant is on the left of frame, man on right, and a beer bottle slightly
in front in right-centre. Lip synching whole line.
‘But I know that this time I have said too much, been
too unkind’
0.29-0.34 Tracking shot as guy stands and walks through room holding a beer in
hand. Continue lip synching. Want exaggerated actions
PRE-CHORUS
‘I try to laugh about it, cover it all up with lies.
I try to laugh about it about it, hiding the tears in my
eyes’
0.35.5-0.45
0.45
Want a comedic approach to the chorus here.
Pub scene with friends playing darts. On ‘with lies’ I want an extreme
close up shot of a dart hitting a dart board. This whole scene needs to
look very involved – no lip synching.
On ‘eyes’ I want lead to break away from friends and to look directly at
the camera filling the frame
CHORUS
‘Cause boys don’t cry.
Boys don’t cry’
0.45.5-0.56 Change in scene here but want exactly the same close up of face filling
the frame. The camera then zooms out and we’re back with the band.
‘I would break down at your feet and beg forgiveness,
plead with you’
0.58-1.03.5 Outside front of house,
1:1 with the lead lip synching. Enhanced hand actions show desperation.
Want to convey George Michael kind of moves here.
‘But I know that it’s too late and now there’s nothing I
can do’
1.04-1.09
1.06
Plant crops into the shot and lead turns his head towards it.
He pushes plant away out of shot.
Continue lip synching.

2. PRE-CHORUS
‘So I try to laugh about it, cover it all up with lies.
I try to laugh about it hiding the tears in my eyes’
1.10-1.20
1.18
Here we’re back in the house again and it’s a continuation of the scene
from the first verse. Here we see the lead in a room with friends and it’s
getting heated.
Lead smashes beer bottle and threaten friend with it. One friend
continues to advance but then all the others get involved and pull them
apart.
As the chorus starts, the camera pull focus to plant in the background
and we vaguely see the lead collapse on floor in frustration n sadness
(still with friends around him/legs)
CHORUS
‘Cause boys don’t cry.
Boys don’t cry’
1.20-1.31
‘I would tell you that I loved you, if I thought that you
would stay’
1.32.5-1.38
0.35
Outside a house with the plant and a woman in the top window.
The camera is facing the lead who’s looking up at the window with a big
piece of cardboard in his hands.
He lifts the sign up and it reads ‘I love you’. And his face shows
desperation
‘But I know that it’s no use, that you’ve already gone
away’
1.38-1.43
At 0.42
Woman in the window.
See woman in the window turn away and we’re left looking at the plant.
BRIDGE
‘Misjudged your limits.
Pushed you too far.
Took you for granted.
I thought that you needed me more, more, more.
1.44.5-1.48
1.50-1.54.5
This scene is the band playing with the lead screaming down
microphone ‘more more more’
OUTRO
Now I would do most anything to get you back by my
side.
But I just keep on laughing hiding the tears in my eyes
1.55-2.00
2.01-2.05
Back in a room with friends, different outfits showing different day.
Leads cracks open another beer bottle and
Cause boys don’t cry
Boys don’t cry
2.06-2.16 Cut scene to lead lip syncing
Boys don’t cry 2.20-2.22 Alone on sofa with beer. Plant on table
OUTRO 2.24-2.34 Ends with band playing.