The script for my music video

1. Key:
Dialogue/Lyric
Different shots within a section
Action
Scene Timing/
Duration
Picture Sound
1 0:00 – 0:04
(4 seconds)
Camera tilts up and circles around the girls;
they are laughing
The first 1/8 of the intro
1 0:05 – 0:23
(18 seconds)
The girls are talking
a) Medium shot of Bella from behind Zoe
and Grace
b) Medium Shot of Zoe and Grace from
behind Bella
c) Same as a)
d) Long shot of the girls from the side of
the table
The rest 5 1/8s of the intro, before
the song starts.
a) Girls Laughing
b) Zoe [to Bella]: Soo… anything
new? How was your
holiday?
Bella: Umm it was good
Grace: Just good, or good
good?
c) Bella: Well, I met this guy…
d) Zoe: Soo … good good then?
The girls laugh
Bella [While laughing]: It
wasn’t that serious! I met
him at some weird party.
Zoe and Grace: And
thenn..?
1 0:24 – 0:33
(4 seconds)
(5 seconds)
a) Close up shot of Bella lip syncing
b) Track to medium shot of Bella lip
syncing second line
Chorus Starts
a) Havana, ooh na-na
b) Half of my heart is in
Havana, ooh na-na
1 0:34 – 0:43
(3 seconds)
(3 seconds)
(2 seconds)
(1 second)
a) Bella stands up and sings the next line,
walking to Zoe
b) Medium shot of her singing the line to
Zoe
c) Medium shot of her singing the next
line to Grace
d) Camera follows her from behind as
she walks off
a) He took me back to East
Atlanta, na-na-na, ah
b) Oh, but my heart is in
Havana
c) There's somethin' 'bout his
manners
d) Havana, ooh na-na
2 0:44 – 0:48
(2 seconds)
(2 seconds)
a) Same shot of her walking, scene
changes into a flashback, Aaron is on
the right side, walking towards her
b) He is in front of her, camera tracks
around them
First Verse Starts
a) He didn't walk up with that
"how you doin'?
b) When he came in the room
2 0:49 – 0:53
(2 seconds)
(2 seconds)
a) Close up shot of Aaron flirting
b) Close up shot of Bella flirting
a) He said there's a lot of girls
I can do with
b) But I can’t without you
2 0:53 – 0:57
(4 seconds)
a) Long shot of him grabbing her hand
and pulling her towards the group of
people
b) Stops in the middle and faces her
a) I knew him forever in a
minute
b) That summer night in June

2. 2 0:58 – 1:10
(2 seconds)
(10 seconds)
a) Medium shot of eye contact
b) Bella and Aaron do a dance routine
together
a) And papa says he got malo
in him
b) He got me feelin' like...
Oooh-oooh-ooh, I knew it
when I met him I loved him
when I left him
3 1:11 – 1:14
(3 seconds)
Girls Dancing together in the shopping
centre. They are in a triangle and they do the
same move she did with Aaron.
Got me feelin' like Oooh-oooh-
ooh,
2/3 1:15 – 1:20
(5 seconds)
Flickering between a medium shot of her
doing a dance with her friends and a
medium shot of her pushing Aaron away in
the flashback.
and then I had to tell him
I had to go, oh na-na-na-na-na
3 1:21 – 1:27
(6 seconds)
Medium shot of the girls walking in the
formation they were dancing in, Bella
singing
Havana, ooh, na-na (ayy, ayy)
Half of my heart is in Havana,
ooh, na-na
3 1:28 – 1:39
(11 seconds)
The girls stop and Bella is showing her
friends pictures of her and Aaron from the
night. Shots vary between Medium shots,
Close ups and Behind the Shoulder shots.
He took me back to East Atlanta,
na-na-na (uh huh)
Oh, but my heart is in Havana
(ayy)
My heart is in Havana (ayy)
Havana, ooh na-na
3 1:40 – 2:27
(47 seconds)
a) Behind the Shoulder Shot from Bella’s
place, showing Zoe
b) Behind the shoulder shot from Zoe’s
place, showing Bella
c) Close up of Zoe
d) Close up of Bella
e) Close up of Grace
f) Medium shot of the girls
a) Zoe: What happened next?
b) Bella: I left
c) Zoe: What? Why?! Did you
at least exchange
numbers?
d) Bella: Yess
e) Grace: Have you texted
him?
f) Bella: No not yet.
Zoe: Hurry up and text
him!!
Grace: Do you think you’ll
see him again?
Bella: Noo I don’t think
so…
4 2:28 – 2:36
(8 seconds)
Bella walking off and Aaron going after her
in a different part of the factory.
Bridge of the song
4 2:37 - 2:41
(4 seconds)
Medium shot of them talking Bridge of the song
2 2:41 – 2:45
(4 seconds)
Short takes of the flashbacks shown before
(scene 2)
Bridge of the song
4 2:46 – 2:54
(8 seconds)
Close up of their phones as they exchange
numbers
Bridge of the song
5 2:55 – 3:06
(11 seconds)
The girls are sitting on a bench
a) Bella is shown in medium shot, she
takes her phone out of her bag
b) Close up of her texting him and then
deleting it
c) Puts her phone back in her bag
Bridge of the song into Chorus
c) Havana, ooh, na-na

3. 5 3:06 – 3:15
(9 seconds)
Close up of Bella singing Half of my heart is in Havana,
ooh, na-na
He took me back to East Atlanta,
na-na-na
5 3:16 – 3:22
(6 seconds)
Medium Shot of Bella singing and getting up
at the end
Oh, but my heart is in Havana
My heart is in Havana (ayy)
Havana, ooh, na-na
5 3:23 – 3:38
(15 seconds)
Long Shot from Behind as the girls walk
together past a shop, the camera follows
them and stops as they are about to walk
past the shop
Uh huh
Oh, na-na-na (oh, na, yeah)
Oh, na-na-na
Oh, na-na-na (no, no, no, take me
back)
Oh, na-na-na
5 3:39 – 3:43
(4 seconds)
The girls are out of shot, Aaron walks out of
the shop holding hands with another girl
Havana, ooh na-na