1. Music Video Second Draft Script
The Killers- Spaceman
Screen writer: Ellie Ryan

2. Music Video Second Draft Script
Video Title: The Killers - SPACEMAN
VIDEO AUDIO
LYRICS / NARRATION / MUSIC / FX
1. *WALKING TOWARDS BUILDING* Band talking, laughing.
*MESSING AROUND, JUMPING AND
LAUGHING*
Medium Shot/Long Shot
Hand held filming
*Quick cut to next shot*
2. *WALKING INTO MAIN DOORS*
Close up on back of their heads,
and then long shot from behind.
Low angle *Blur to next shot*
3. *ESTABLISHING SHOT OF THE ROOM WITH Introduction
THE BAND WALKING IN.* .
Close ups, slow motion filming
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. *SINGERS, GUITARISTS IN THE (0.19)Second round of background
BACKGROUND.* vocals
Medium shots *Cut to next shot*
Still filming on tripod
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*

3. Music Video Second Draft Script
VIDEO AUDIO
LYRICS / NARRATION / MUSIC / FX
8. *MEDIUM SHOT OF GUITARIST* (0.38)
Close up, medium shot “You know that I was hoping,
Hand held That I could leave this star-
crossed world behind”
DISSCUSION ABOUT LYRICS
Vocalist makes a ripping
actionat.(0.45)
“But when they cut me open”
*Cut to next shot*
9. *LONG SHOT OF THE WHOLE BAND (0.50)Slight laughter from the
LAUGHING* band.
Long Shot, Close up, Hand held
filming
*Cut to next shot*
10. *FILM SINGER AND DRUMMER JOKELY (0.51)
SINGING TO EACH OTHER. *
“And you know I might”
Medium shot
*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 FROM DRUMMERS (1.04)
VIEW* Wide shot, low angle. “And the zipping white light
beams
Disregards the bombs and
satellites”
*Cut to next shot*
13. *FILM GLASS OF WATER THAT MOVE TO (1.10)
THE BEAT OF THE SONG.* “That was the turning point
Close up That was one lonely night”
Filmed on tripod.
*Cut to next shot*

4. Music Video Second Draft Script
VIDEO AUDIO
LYRICS / NARRATION / MUSIC / FX
14. *FILM LEAD SINGER PERFORM AND HOW (1.16)
HE SHUTS HIS EYES.* “The star maker says, „It ain't
Medium, Close up. so bad‟
The dream maker's gonna make you
mad”
*Cut to next shot*
15. *LEAD SINGER OUTSIDE LOOKS INTO THE “The spaceman says,
SHY THEN DOWN AT THE FLOOR. HE THEN „Everybody look down,
SHUTS HIS EYES AGAIN KEEPING THEM It's all in your mind‟“
CLOSED *
Wide shot
Fast forward.
Filmed on tripod
*Cut to next shot*
16. *FILM SINGER STOOD OUTSIDE WITH “Well now I'm back at home, and
EYES STILL SHUT AND LETS GO OF THE I'm looking forward to this life
MICRO PHONE STAND.” I live
Filmed on tripod, medium shot. You know it‟s gonna haunt me
So hesitation to this life I
give”
*Cut to next shot*
17. *FILM VOCALIST WHO HAS OPENED HIS “You think you might cross over,
EYES AND IS BACK IN THE STUDIO.* You're caught between the devil
Close up, Establishing shot. and the deep blue sea
Filmed on tripod You better look it over,
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
Filmed on tripod 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*

5. Music Video Second Draft Script
VIDEO AUDIO
LYRICS / NARRATION / MUSIC / FX
19. *FILM DRUMMER IN SLOW MOTION.* “The star maker says, "It ain't
Close ups, Medium shots so bad"
Hand held 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*
20. *FILM BAND PERFORM* “The star maker says, "It ain't
Establishing shot so bad"
Filmed on tripod. 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. *BAND PACK UP THEIR INSTRUMENTS* (2.44)
Medium shot, Long Shots.
*Cut to next shot*
22. *GUITARIST AND DRUMMER LAUGHING AS (2.50)
SINGER DAYDREAMS *
Long Shot
*Cut to next shot*
23. *FILM VOCALIST BACK OUTSIDE* “My global position systems are
Close ups, Estabilishing shot vocally addressed
They say the Nile used to run
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...”

6. Music Video Second Draft Script
VIDEO AUDIO
LYRICS / NARRATION / MUSIC / FX
24. * GUITARIST AND DRUMMER LAUGHING AS “The star maker says, "It ain't
SINGER DAYDREAMS * 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 LEAD SINGER OUTSIDE* “It's all in my mind
* It's all in my mind
Hand held filming It's all in my mind
Close ups It's all in my mind
It's all in my mind”
*Fade to next shot*
*OUTRO*
26. *SHOWS SINGER START LAUGHING AT THE *4.14*
BAND THROWS SOMETHING AT THEM
JOKELY.*
Establishing shot
*Fade to next shot*
Steady filming
27. *FILM BAND WALKING OUT OF THE *4.20*
STUDIO CHASING THEM*
Medium shot
*Fade to next shot*
28. *FILM FINISHED ON A PAN ACROSS THE *4.27*
INSTRUMENTS AND THEN ONTO THE DRUMS
WHICH HAS THE PRODUCTION COMPANY
NAME IN THE MIDDLE.*
STEADY filming
29. *SCREEN TURNS BLACK* END.*4.36*
Medium shot.