This document is a draft script for a music video for the song "Spaceman" by the band The Killers. The script outlines 29 scenes that will be filmed of the band recording and performing the song in a studio, interspersed with lyrics. It provides descriptions of shots and camera angles alongside timestamps of when lyrics or instrumentation should appear in the video. The overall storyline follows the band as they record the song from start to finish in the studio.

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The Killers- Spaceman
Screen writer: Denni Hepburn

2. Music video first draft script
Video Title: The Killers - SPACEMAN
VIDEO AUDIO
LYRICS / NARRATION / MUSIC / FX
1. *WALKING INTO BUILDING FROM CAR* Band talking, laughing.
*CARRYING EQUIPMENT FROM VIHICAL*
Close ups/Medium Shot
Hand held filming
*Quick cut to next shot*
2. *WALKING INTO MAIN DOORS*
Close up on feet
Low angle
*Blur to next shot*
3. *FILM LYRIC SHEET/NOTES Introduction
SHEET/EQUIPMENT* BLACK AND WHITE THROUGHOUT REST
Close ups, blurry background OF THE VIDEO.
Hand held filming
slowly
4. *FILM DRUMMER PERFORMING IN THE (0.12)Drums come in
RECORDING STUDIO*
Close ups on instrument
Still shots on a tripod *Cut to next shot*
5. *FILM SOUND PANEL AND SPEAKERS* (0.19)Second round of background
Close ups/Medium shots vocals
Hand held filming *Cut to next shot*
6. *FILM VOCALIST PERFORM* (0.26) Main vocals come in
Close-up on microphone and “It started with a low light,
vocalist. Not much of the face is Next thing I knew they ripped me
in shot. Mainly the mouth and from my bed
microphone. And then they took my blood
Still shot on a tripod type”
*Cut to next shot*
7. *FILM VOCALIST’S FOOT TAP TO DRUM (0.33) “It left a strange
BEAT* impression in my head”
Close up Vibration on the screenat drum
Still shot beat
*Cut to next shot*

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VIDEO AUDIO
LYRICS / NARRATION / MUSIC / FX
8. *FILM ARTISTS GOING THROUGH THE (0.38)
LYRICS* “You know that I was hoping,
Close up, medium shot That I could leave this star-
Hand held crossed world behind”
DISSCUSION ABOUT LYRICS
Vocalist makes a ripping
actionat.(0.45)
“But when they cut me open”
*Cut to next shot*
9. *FILM ARTISTS LITENING BACK TO (0.50)SOUND RECORDER PERSON
RECORDING* TELLING THE ARTISTS ABOUT PARTS
Wide shot, medium shot OF THE RECORDING
Close up on artists and sound
recorder person
*Cut to next shot*
Hand held filming
10. *FILM DRUMMER MIMING THE DRUMS* (0.51)
Medium shot
“And you know I might”
*cut to next shot*
11. *FILM VOCALIST SINGING* (0.53)
Medium shot. “Have just flown too far from
the floor this time,
Cause they're calling me by my
name”
*Cut to next shot*
12. *FILM BAND PERFORM* (1.04)
Wide shot, close ups “And the zipping white light
Steady filming beams
Disregards the bombs and
satellites”
*Cut to next shot*
13. *FILM VOCALIST* (1.10)
Close up “That was the turning point
Steady filming That was one lonely night”
*Cut to next shot*

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VIDEO AUDIO
LYRICS / NARRATION / MUSIC / FX
14. *FILM BAND PERFORM* (1.16)
Wide shot “The star maker says, „It ain't
Fish eye effect so bad‟
Hand held filming The dream maker's gonna make you
Different angles mad”
*Cut to next shot*
15. *FILM WHOLE ROOM* “The spaceman says,
Wide shot „Everybody look down,
Steady filming It's all in your mind‟“
Fast forward.
*Cut to next shot*
16. *FILM ARTISTS” “Well now I'm back at home, and
Hand held filming I'm looking forward to this life
Artists filming each otherrecording I live
writing lyric. You know it‟s gonna haunt me
Fast shots So hesitation to this life I
give”
*Cut to next shot*
17. *FILM VOCALIST* “You think you might cross over,
Close up You're caught between the devil
Steady filming and the deep blue sea
Vocalist sat down on stairs, very You better look it over,
lit up shot. Before you make that leap”
*Cut to next shot*
18. *FILM BAND PERFORM* “And you know I'm fine,
Wide shots, close ups But I hear those voices at night
Steady filming sometimes-
They justify my claim,
And the public don't dwell my
transmission
Cause it wasn't televised
But, it was the turning point,
Oh what a lonely night”
*Cut to next shot*

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VIDEO AUDIO
LYRICS / NARRATION / MUSIC / FX
19. *FILM BAND AND SOUND RECORDER “The star maker says, "It ain't
PERSON EDITING AND LISTENING BACK so bad"
TO SONG* The dream maker's gonna make you
Close ups, wide shots mad
Hand held filming The spaceman says, "Everybody
look down
It's all in your mind"
*Cut to next shot*
20. *FILM BAND PERFORM* “The star maker says, "It ain't
Wide shot so bad"
Steady filming The dream maker's gonna make you
mad
The spaceman says, "Everybody
look down
It's all in your mind"
*Cut to next shot*
21. *FILM EDITING ON COMPUTER SCREENS* (2.44)
*Cut to next shot*
22. *FILM VOCALIST TAP TO DRUM BEAT* (2.50)
*Cut to next shot*
23. *FILM VOCALIST SINGING WITH “My global position systems are
MICROPHONE IN AN EMPTY SPACE* vocally addressed
Close ups, wide shots They say the Nile used to run
Zooming in and out slowly from East to West,
They say the Nile used to run...
From East to West.
And you know I'm fine
But I hear those voices at night
Sometimes...”
*Zoom into vocalist, zoom out to
all the band being there
performing*
*In colour*

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VIDEO AUDIO
LYRICS / NARRATION / MUSIC / FX
24. *FILM WHOLE BAND PERFORM IN EMPTY “The star maker says, "It ain't
SPACE* so bad"
Close ups, wide shots The dream maker's gonna make you
Steady filming mad
The spaceman says, "Everybody
look down
It's all in your mind" X2
*Fade to next shot*
*Black and white*
25. *FILM BACK IN “It's all in my mind
RECORDING STUDIO FINISHING TRACK, It's all in my mind
MESSING AROUND and BAND FILMING It's all in my mind
EACH OTHER* It's all in my mind
Hand held filming It's all in my mind”
Close ups
*Fade to next shot*
*OUTRO*
26. *FILM PACKING AWAY EQUIPMENT* *4.14*
Wide shot *fast forward*
Steady filming
*Fade to next shot*
27. *FILM BAND TURNING LIGHTS OFF IN *4.20*
THE STUDIO and WALKING OUT*
Close up
*Fade to next shot*
28. *FILM FINISHED CD ON TABLE WITH THE *4.27*
BANDS NAME AND SONG WRITTEN ON IT*
Hand held filming
Fades to darkness.
29. END.*4.36*