The music video script follows a group of friends throughout a day out in the city. It consists of 11 scenes showing the friends getting ready, taking public transportation, playing games at a cafe, walking along the docks, attending a concert, hanging out in a parking lot, with the narrative being told from the perspective of someone filming their friends with a camera. The scenes cut between the friends' activities while lyrics from the song play throughout.

1. Music Video Script
First Draft Music video script
‘Desire’ – Years & Years
by Shauna Leacy & Emily Aldred

2. Music Video Script
Video Title: ‘Hold Back the River’
VIDEO AUDIO
LYRICS / NARRATION / MUSIC / FX
<Over the whole video is a grainy
slight old fashioned tint some
scenes black and white>
1. 0:00 – 0:30 – Shot of girl sat
facing towards her TV, she picks up
her remote the end of a video begins
to play.
No sound only of the girls
movements as she picks up the
remote
2. 0:30 – 1:00 – The girl then rewinds
the video on her screen back to the
start and presses play.
<Rewind sound>
3. 1:00 – 1:30 – As the camera begins
to zoom in towards her TV, the video
starts to play from the start the
video starts with a someone filming
a record beginning to play the turn
table begins to spin.
<Sound of a turn table>
Music begins to play off of the
vinyl when it starts playing
<intro of the song>
4. 1:30 – 2:00 – The camera then moves
onto friends getting ready to go out
you see the girl with the camera in
the reflection of the mirror filming
her friend as her friend waves and
smiles at the camera.
I must be tough, I must be
behave, I must keep fighting, I
want to keep us compromising,
open your arms and pray To the
truth that your denying, give
into the truth, to the sense that
you’ve been hiding
5. 2:00 – 2:30 – The friends start to
get there coats on and begin to walk
down the stairs one of the friends
is always filming so you see the
cameras point of view following the
friends out of their zoom down the
stairs and out of the house as the
friends turn and look at the camera
smiling.
where are you taking me? I can’t
be blamed, I want you to want me
again Is it desire, or is it love
that im feeling for you, I want
desire, cause your love only gets
me abused
6. 2:30 – 3:00 – The friends are all
sat on the train a different friend
has hold of the camera as they film
the others laughing and joking on
the train, then it cuts to the
camera facing out of the window.
Cuts to new scene
give me that rush, I want to show
you what you’ve been missing, am
I enough? To keep your other
lovers hidden

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7. 3:00 – 3:30 – Then the camera is
placed on the table facing the
friends slightly pointed upwards as
the friends play a game of cards.
Where are you taking me? I can’t
be blamed, I want you to want me
again, is it desire? Or is it
love that im feeling for you
8. 3:30 – 4:00 –They are walking along
the docks at Liverpool pointing
towards to water and joking around
walking along the steps and turning
every now and then to face to
camera.
Cuts to new scene
I want desire cause your love
only gets me abused, is it
desire, or is it love that im
feeling for you, I want desire,
cause your love only gets me
abused
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11.
4:00 – 4:30 – Then cuts to a concert
scene where you see the person face
the camera towards their friend next
to them and then to the stage
4:30 – 5:00 – You see the friends
sat in a café all just sat on sofas
talking as one of the friends film
them the person holding the camera
films themselves picking up their
drink and drinking it from their
point of view.
5:00 – 5:30 – Then it cuts to the
friends messing about in a car park
sitting in the shopping trolley’s
whilst one friend films then the
person with the camera films
themselves getting pushed in the
trolley.
Cuts to new scene
you know that you’ve got me,
you’ve locked me down, you tell
me you want me, you need it now,
you know that you’ve got me,
you’ve locked me down, you tell
me you want me now
Cuts to new scene
is it desire or is it love that
im feeling for you, I want
desire, cause your love only gets
me abused
Cuts to new scene
is it desire or is it love that
im feeling for you, I want desire
I wanna see what your willing to
loose

4. Music Video Script