2. INTRODUCTION
From the information I have gathered from my initial
research, unlike a traditional screenplay, music video
script should list visuals on one half of the page, with
audio, FX, and lyrics on the other.
In this presentation I am going to use the lyrics provided
to me by the band and whilst listening to the song I will
list all the elements that I am planning to incorporate in
this music video.
I am going to create a word file as it best fits for multi-
ple-column script with three columns: time, audio and
visuals.
3. LYRICS Verse 1
swimming in the thunderstorm
the waters cool yet its warm
i go dancing and im cold
the waves do what theyre told
screaming at a broken glass
clouds are closing in fast
the things i barely grasp
are all lost in a gasp
Chorus
deep blue thunder
exposing all my wonders
flashing neon colours
but you always make me crumble
and why do i stutter
spit my words thru a funnel
id rather throw you in the gutter
and leave you for another
Verse 2
did you lie to be kind
and if i ever was blind
were your eyes open wide
closed lips on mine
and i expected so much
that i forgot how to feel your touch
that i forgot how to judge
that now
everything broke apart
Chorus
deep blue thunder
exposing all my wonders
flashing neon colours
but you always make me crumble
and why do i stutter
spit my words thru a funnel
id rather throw you in the gutter
and leave you for another
5. SCRIPTVERSION 1.EVALUATION
After I looked at a script and imagined the music video in my head I was slightly underwhelmed,
so were my audience’s feedback. Verdict: too repetative and bland. And I know exactly the reason
for this, two of them to be precise. I made the script too performsative based for a concept orient-
ed music video by adding so many performace bits in it, I have to replace a fraction of them with
shots of people moving or some buildings/objects that fit into the theme. The other reason is
waiting one part of the music video for it to change into lighter scenes, naturallly-lit ones for the
concept’s sake, contrast. Because first minute and a half the video is entirely dark it loses all the
details and might seem mushy and bland, that is why I am going to have some scenes dark and
some bright and they will frequently change to keep the interest of the audience going. I am also
going to incorporate more shots into the video to have more cuts between them and keep the dy-
namic relatively fast. I also need to add some transitions to make the video more technologically
advanced and for different shots to blend into each other nicely.
6. CLIENT: Daze DATE: 26.09.2021
TITLE: Initial Script WRITTEN BY: Illia Boyko
SCRIPT VERSION: 1 TRT: 3:16
TIME AUDIO VIDEO
00:00 - 00:04 First notes played Slowed down zoom into a
building/titles on screen
00:04 - 00:10 Intro continues Shot of water in the dark
00:10 - 00:23 Section before drums Camera following a car in
the dark
00:23 - 00:30 Drums kicked in Each second random band
member’s face appears in
the darkness
00:30 - 00:45 Last seconds before the audio Each band member is going
down the stairs from a
well-lit area into darkness
00:45 - 01:08 First verse Each two bars new band
member sings a portion of
the verse alone in the dark
01:08 - 01:31 Chorus Band members are singing
their lyrics emotionally, also
alone in the frame, but the
lighting is more aggressive
than it used to be
01:31 - 01:51 Between chorus and verse 2 To make the transition from
dark to light shots of water
shot at night and at day are
going to replace each other
each time being faster and
faster leading to verse 2
01:51 - 02:15 Verse 2 Starting from verse 2
everything is shot during
daylight, band members
FINALSCRIPT
7. FINALSCRIPT.EVALUATION
I have added a few more shots to better relate to the concept of contrast, made a few adjustmnets
to the timing issues in the first version. The verse one now does not contain any performance
shots. Light/dark contrast is better achieved through constant change of lighting in the music
video, which I incorporated into the script. I have added a few fade-ins and outs for aforemen-
tioned reasons. Cuts between scenes are now clearly identified and intensified by their amount,
dynamic of the video is better comparing to the previous version. And I made sure that every
band member gets enough screen time in the video beacuse they all contribute to the sound.
