Second draft scriptel

Music Video Second Draft Script

The Killers - Spaceman

Screen writer: Ellie Ryan


Video Title: The Killers - SPACEMAN

VIDEO AUDIO

LYRICS / NARRATION / MUSIC / FX

1. *WALKING TOWARDS BUILDING**MESSING AROUND, JUMPING AND LAUGHING*Medium Shot /Long ShotHand held filming

Band talking, laughing.

*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 THE BAND WALKING IN.*Close ups, slow motion filming

Introduction.

4. *FILM DRUMMER PERFORMING IN THE RECORDING STUDIO*Close ups on instrumentStill shots on a tripod

(0.12)Drums come in

*Cut to next shot*

5. *SINGERS, GUITARISTS IN THE BACKGROUND.*Medium shotsStill filming on tripod

(0.19)Second round of background vocals*Cut to next shot*

6. *FILM VOCALIST PERFORM*Close-up on microphone and vocalist. Not much of the face is in shot. Mainly the mouth and microphone.Still shot on a tripod

(0.26) Main vocals come in“It started with a low light,Next thing I knew they ripped me from my bedAnd then they took my blood type”

*Cut to next shot*

7. *FILM VOCALIST’S FOOT TAP TO DRUM BEAT*Close upStill shot

(0.33) “It left a strange impression in my head”Vibration on the screen at drum beat*Cut to next shot*


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8. *MEDIUM SHOT OF GUITARIST*Close up, medium shotHand held

(0.38)“You know that I was hoping,That I could leave this star-crossed world behind”DISSCUSION ABOUT LYRICSVocalist makes a ripping action at. (0.45)“But when they cut me open”

*Cut to next shot*

9. *LONG SHOT OF THE WHOLE BAND LAUGHING*Long Shot, Close up, Hand held filming

(0.50)Slight laughter from the band.

*Cut to next shot*

10. *FILM SINGER AND DRUMMER JOKELY SINGING TO EACH OTHER. *Medium shot

(0.51)

“And you know I might”

*cut to next shot*

11. *FILM VOCALIST SINGING*Medium shot.

(0.53)“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 VIEW* Wide shot, low angle.

(1.04)“And the zipping white light beamsDisregards the bombs and satellites”

*Cut to next shot*

13. *FILM GLASS OF WATER THAT MOVE TO THE BEAT OF THE SONG.*Close upFilmed on tripod.

(1.10)“That was the turning pointThat was one lonely night”

*Cut to next shot*


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14. *FILM LEAD SINGER PERFORM AND HOW HE SHUTS HIS EYES.*Medium, Close up.

(1.16)“The star maker says, ‘It ain't so bad’The dream maker's gonna make you mad”

*Cut to next shot*

15. *LEAD SINGER OUTSIDE LOOKS INTO THE SHY THEN DOWN AT THE FLOOR. HE THEN SHUTS HIS EYES AGAIN KEEPING THEM CLOSED *Wide shotFilmed on tripod

“The spaceman says,‘Everybody look down,It's all in your mind’“

Fast forward.*Cut to next shot*

16. *FILM SINGER STOOD OUTSIDE WITH EYES STILL SHUT AND LETS GO OF THE MICRO PHONE STAND.”Filmed on tripod, medium shot.

“Well now I'm back at home, andI'm looking forward to this life I liveYou know it’s gonna haunt meSo hesitation to this life I give”

*Cut to next shot*

17. *FILM VOCALIST WHO HAS OPENED HIS EYES AND IS BACK IN THE STUDIO.*Close up, Establishing shot.Filmed on tripod

“You think you might cross over,You're caught between the devil and the deep blue seaYou better look it over,Before you make that leap”

*Cut to next shot*

18. *FILM BAND PERFORM*Wide shots, close upsFilmed on tripod

“And you know I'm fine,But I hear those voices at night sometimes-They justify my claim,And the public don't dwell my transmissionCause it wasn't televisedBut, it was the turning point,Oh what a lonely night”

*Cut to next shot*


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19. *FILM DRUMMER IN SLOW MOTION. *Close ups, Medium shotsHand held filming

“The star maker says, "It ain't so bad"The dream maker's gonna make you madThe spaceman says, "Everybody look downIt's all in your mind"

*Cut to next shot*

20. *FILM BAND PERFORM*Establishing shotFilmed on tripod.

“The star maker says, "It ain't so bad"The dream maker's gonna make you madThe spaceman says, "Everybody look downIt's all in your mind"

*Cut to next shot*

21. *BAND PACK UP THEIR INSTRUMENTS*Medium shot, Long Shots.

(2.44)

*Cut to next shot*

22. *GUITARIST AND DRUMMER LAUGHING AS SINGER DAYDREAMS *Long Shot

(2.50)

*Cut to next shot*

23. *FILM VOCALIST BACK OUTSIDE*Close ups, Estabilishing shot

“My global position systems are vocally addressedThey 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 fineBut I hear those voices at nightSometimes...”


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24. * GUITARIST AND DRUMMER LAUGHING AS SINGER DAYDREAMS *Close ups, wide shotsSteady filming

“The star maker says, "It ain't so bad"The dream maker's gonna make you madThe spaceman says, "Everybody look downIt's all in your mind" X2

*Fade to next shot*

*Black and white*

25. *FILM LEAD SINGER OUTSIDE**Hand held filmingClose ups

“It's all in my mindIt's all in my mindIt's all in my mindIt's all in my mindIt's all in my mind”

*Fade to next shot*

*OUTRO*

26. *SHOWS SINGER START LAUGHING AT THE BAND THROWS SOMETHING AT THEM JOKELY.*Establishing shotSteady filming

*4.14*

*Fade to next shot*

27. *FILM BAND WALKING OUT OF THE STUDIO CHASING THEM*Medium shot

*4.20*

*Fade to next shot*

28. *FILM FINISHED ON A PAN ACROSS THE INSTRUMENTS AND THEN ONTO THE DRUMS WHICH HAS THE PRODUCTION COMPANY NAME IN THE MIDDLE.*STEADY filming

*4.27*

29. *SCREEN TURNS BLACK*Medium shot.

END.*4.36*

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