Script

(This music video will consist of three different scenarios, which all relate to the idea of the song. The narratives will intermingle with each other so that you gain knowledge of each scenario throughout the video. Each narrative is very writerley so that the audience has to think about the story and the problems within it. The first narrative is a marriage scenario. A couple are having troubled times and so are having arguments throughout the song. These include shots of heated argument, tearful faces, items being thrown and ignoring each other. However, there are very writerley shots of a woman with a veil over her face followed by an ultrasound scan. A symbolic shot in this video is when a ring falls to the floor in slow motion to show the ending of the marriage. These shots make the audience wonder what has happened to the couple to make them have the arguments. The second narrative is of a man in a church who has lost his faith in religion for reasons we don’t know. We see him in shots around the church which give the impression that he is either crying or praying, we do not know. The reason he is losing his religion is hinted at when we see a shot of a heartbeat monitor that is going very slowly, but we are still unsure until the end, when we see him looking at a gravestone in tears. This is done so that the audience is unsure of the story until the very end of the song. The final narrative is about losing your faith in social belongings. We are representing this with a guy who seems to be excluded from a social group or gang of youths. They are all having a good time, where he is not. We find out at the end that he is physically disabled and so he is excluded from the group because he is different from the others. This narrative is used to show the lack of equality in social groups, especially teenage groups)

Shot List

Intro

1^st shot – close up of veil – Marriage 4 secs

2^nd shot – Close up handicapped characters face – Social 5 secs

3^rd shot – close up Religious characters face – Religion 5 secs

1^st Verse

Close up – Of Woman’s distressed face – Marriage 4 secs

Wide/long shot – End of bed of Woman and Man arguing – Marriage 6 secs

Over the shoulder – Look over man’s shoulder to see who he is arguing at – Marriage 5 secs

Extreme close up – Woman’s eye, crying – Marriage 4 secs

Medium shot – Man shaking and throwing small picture with frame on the floor – Marriage 5 secs

Close up – Frame lying on the floor, broken – Marriage 7 secs

1^st Chorus

Long shot – Man sitting on church Pugh – Religion 8 secs

Close up – Christian cross, inside of church – Religion 6 secs

High angle - Male character kneeling – Religion 6 secs

Close up – Disabled Characters face – Social 5 secs

Low angle Pan – Group of people, talking, laughing, mingling – Social 10 secs

Long shot – Group shown from afar within a car park – Social 6 secs

High angle – Group again shown from above – Social 5 Secs

2^nd Verse

Wide shot – Man staring out of window and Woman sitting on sofa – Marriage 7 secs

Ultra sound scan Animation – Child located within Woman’s womb – Marriage 3 secs

Medium shot – side of Woman sitting on sofa – Marriage 6 secs

Medium shot – side of man looking out of the window 6 secs

Over the shoulder shot – Woman arguing with man over woman’s shoulder – Marriage 6 secs

Close up – Woman wearing veil over head – Marriage 2 secs

Master shot – Many quick shots of man sitting in different Pugh’s and different areas – Religion 12 secs

Heartbeat monitor Animation – showing the status of the male characters wife – Religion 2 secs

Long shot – Man falling to his knees in the middle of the isle of the church – Religion 5 secs

Close up – Woman lifting veil over her head – Marriage 6 secs

Medium shot – Laughing teenage character – Social 6 secs

Close up – Disabled teen looking depressed – Social 4 secs

Medium shot – Disabled teen lifting legs to get onto the bed – Social 6 secs

High angle – Disabled teen trying to get onto bed – Social 6 secs

Bridge

High angle – Woman waking up on sofa – Marriage 5 secs

High angle – Disabled teen waking up on bed – Social 5 secs

High angle – Man waking up on Pugh – Religion 5 secs

2^nd Chorus

Close up – Wedding ring falling down to the floor (slowed down) – Marriage 11 secs

Close up – Wheel of wheelchair and characters feet – Social 4 secs

Low angled shot – wheelchair pulling up to a stair case and then turns around – Social 8 secs

Medium shot – disabled teen lying on bed, very depressed – Social 4 secs

Close up – Disabled Teens face, very depressed – Social 3 secs

Medium shot – an sat on bench in front of church smirking faintly – Religion 5 secs

Over the shoulder shot – man sitting on bench from behind, bursts into tears – Religion 6 secs

Heartbeat monitor – flat line– Religion 4 secs

Final verse

Long shot – woman leaves house and proceeds to walk away – Marriage 6 secs

Long shot – Man walking away from graveyard – Religion 6 secs

Long shot – Disabled teen wheeling off in the distance- Social 6 secs

Outro

Medium shot –Disabled boy sitting on end of bed – Social 5 secs

Medium shot – Man sitting on Pugh, Head in hands – Religion 6 secs                                                        

Medium shot – Man sitting on sofa woman wearing veil staring out of the window –Marriage 6 secs

Video Times

Verse	Scene	Start	Finish	Time (s)
Instrumental	Intro (M)	0:17	0:21	4
Instrumental	Intro (R)	0:21	0:26	5
Instrumental	Intro (S)	0:26	0:31	5
Verse 1	Marriage	0:31	1:02	31
Chorus 1	Religion	1:02	1:22	20
Chorus 1	Social	1:22	1:48	26
Verse 2	Marriage	1:48	2:18	30
Verse 2	Religion	2:18	2:37	19
Verse 2	Marriage	2:37	2:43	6
Verse 2	Social	2:43	3:05	22
Bridge	All (M)	3:05	3:10	5
Bridge	All (R)	3:10	3:15	5
Bridge	All (S)	3:15	3:20	5
Chorus 2	Marriage	3:20	3:31	11
Chorus 2	Social	3:31	3:50	19
Chorus 2	Religion	3:50	4:05	15
Verse 3	All (M)	4:05	4:11	6
Verse 3	All (R)	4:11	4:17	6
Verse 3	All (S)	4:17	4:23	6
Instrumental	All (M)	4:23	4:28	5
Instrumental	All (R)	4:28	4:34	6
Instrumental	All (S)	4:34	4:40	6

Marriage = 108 s

Religion = 71 s

Social = 84 s