Nikki J - The Way You Do Storyboard Script (First Draft)
1. Nikki J – The Way You Do Storyboard Script
IN BLACK AND WHITE
Intro: zoom in long shot to medium close up (couple are walking hand in hand down a street)
“I don’t believe in fairy tales”: mid shot (walk up to her house and they hug on the doorstep)
“But the night that I met you”: shot/reverse shot (she opens the door and waves goodbye)
“All my wishes came true”: mid shot (she closes the door behind her and leans on it and smiles)
“Can be myself when I’m with you”: low angle shot (she walks up the stairs)
“My hair and makeup you can see through”: medium close up (see reflection of her in the mirror
messing with her hair and makeup)
“It’s the real me that you’re in to”: medium close up (see reflection of her in the mirror looking at
herself in the mirror lip syncing the words)
IN COLOUR
“Come over to my house and chill, be yourself and keep it real”: close up, shot/reverse shot, mid
shot (we see her as she opens the door and peeps her head around, cut to shot of him smiling and
holding chocolates and flowers, cut to her smiling and waving him to enter and sit down on the sofa)
“I love who you are, you are my star”: long shot (outside on a starry night we see her dancing by
herself and lip syncing the words and breaking the fourth wall)
IN BLACK AND WHITE
“I’m looking rough ain’t done my hair”: medium close up (see reflection of her in the mirror messing
with her hair and makeup again)
“I don’t dress up but you don’t care”: (she puts on some comfy clothing and ties hair into ponytail)
IN COLOUR
“I love who you are, you are my star”: long shot (outside on a starry night we see her dancing by
herself and lip syncing the words and breaking the fourth wall)
IN COLOUR
“Babe when I see something beautiful”: long shot (see the flowers that he bought for her in a vase)
“Automatically reminds me of you” medium close up, point of view (see her smiling at the flowers
and see her turn her head, cut to a point of view shot of him)
“That’s why I know that my heart is real cause no one else can make me feel”: long shot (see h im
sitting on the sofa and see her as she goes to sit next to him on the sofa and relaxes in his arms)
“The way you do”: long shot (outside on a starry night we see her dancing by herself and lip syncing
the words and breaking the fourth wall)
IN COLOUR
“I love it when we are alone”: long shot (them back on the sofa)
“Cause we just kick back and relax watch some movies play tracks”: (starts with an over the
shoulder shot of the TV and pans in rightwards direction onto a close up of the two eating popcorn.
Stack of CDs or a stereo on the table next to them).
“And when I’m lying in your arms, you know exactly what to do”: medium close up (the couple are
laying on the sofa)
“To make me stay in love with you” close up (outside on a starry night we see her dancing by herself
and lip syncing the words and breaking the fourth wall)
2. IN COLOUR
“Come over to my house and chill, be yourself and keep it real”: long into medium close via zoom in
(the camera moves around the couple while they are dancing around the house)
“I love who you are, you are my star”: long shot (outside on a starry night we see her dancing by
herself and lip syncing the words and breaking the fourth wall)
IN BLACK AND WHITE
“I’m looking rough ain’t done my hair”: medium shot (wakes up in the morning with massive bed
head)
“I don’t dress up but you don’t care”: medium shot (she is wearing PJs and a bath robe)
IN COLOUR
“I love who you are, you are my star”: long shot (outside on a starry night we see her dancing by
herself and lip syncing the words and breaking the fourth wall)
IN COLOUR
“Babe when I see something beautiful”: (The female gets up and drags the male off the sofa and out
of shot)
“Automatically reminds me of you”: (The couple are in the hallway and are getting ready to go
outside)
“That’s why I know that my heart is real”: long shot (outside on a starry night we see her dancing by
herself and lip syncing the words and breaking the fourth wall)
“Cause no one else can make me feel the way you do”: (The couple are walking down a cold street at
night holding hands and smiling)
FADE INTO BLACK AND WHITE
“No need to hide when I’m with you”: (Flashback of the couple walking down a cold street at night,
they are holding hands and smiling, same shot as the previous but the characters change clothes and
the shot is in black and white)
“I feel so safe when I’m in your arms”: Long shot, low angle (The male character takes the female
and pulls her into his arms and they hug, with one streetlight in the distance, silhouettes form)
FADE INTO COLOUR
“And I wouldn’t change a single thing. Cause you know that”: Close up (The couple turn back around
and we see them heading off into the night and walking towards a field)
IN COLOUR
“Babe when I see something beautiful automatically reminds me of you. That’s why I know that my
heart is real. Cause no one else can make me feel”: long wide shot (outside on a starry night we see
him and her dancing with multiple people dancing, while she is occasionally lip syncing the words
and breaking the fourth wall)
“The way you do. No one. The way you do. No one. Ho ooo”: zoom out – close up to wide long shot
(outside on a starry night we see her dancing by herself and lip syncing the words and occasionally
breaking the fourth wall).