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Wake me up first draft music video script by ryan sharman
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Transcript of Wake me up first draft music video script by ryan sharman
Music Video Script
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Music Video
Avicii – Wake Me Up
Director – Ryan Sharman
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Video Title:
VIDEO
AUDIO
LYRICS / NARRATION / MUSIC / FX
1. 0:00 – 0:30–Wide low angle of a
motorway, clear visual of car tops
and then it should fade until trees
come into vision.
Pan right to left, 360 degrees
spin as Music starts to play
Wide shot with character centre and
then a pan of the subject’s body
head to toe.
Over the shoulder shot, seeing the
dark forest in front of the
character, and then slowing zooming
out as the character walks away in
the distance.
Distant sounds of cars and trees
blowing in the wind.
Music intro plays
Feeling my way through the
darkness, Guided by a beating
heart.
I can’t tell where the journey
will end, but I know where to
start.
2. 0:30 – 1:00 – Mid shot of a child
playing in a playground, it should
be foggy so that it’s portrayed as
a dream and you’ll get that effect
from fog.
Shots of the forest, e.g. Trees,
ground, sky through the tree tops,
any animal or insects. All the
surrounding in the filming
location.
They tell me I’m too young to
understand, They say I’m caught
up in a dream.
Well life will pass me by if I
don’t open my eyes, Well that’s
fine by me.
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VIDEO
AUDIO
LYRICS / NARRATION / MUSIC / FX
3. 1:00 – 1:30 – character was lay on
the floor, using a close up shot of
his face and then his body to show
he doesn’t want to be awake until
he’s wiser and older, and there
should be clear signs that he’s
lost.
As the character is climbing over
the last house prop, he then trips
and falls to the floor. An extreme
close up will focus on his face and
then a point of view shot is
focused on his hands (which are
dirty).
A wide shot is focusing him getting
up and getting the dirt off his
hands wiping himself down. Then an
over the shoulder shot of him
walking through the forest.
So wake me up when it’s all
over, when I’m wiser and older.
All this time I was finding
myself, and I didn’t know I was
lost. (2x)
I tried carrying the weight of
the world, but I only have two
hands.
Hope I get the chance to travel
the world, but I don’t have any
plans.
4. 1:30 – 2:00 –A wide shot is used of
him running towards the camera and
then when his chest is in frame it
cuts to him jumping over props (to
do with school). This shot will be
a wide shot mixed with close up and
extreme close ups on all the props
and his feet.
Wish I could stay forever this
young, not afraid to close my
eyes.
5. 2:00 – 2:30–When he stops running
he comes to a ditch and jumps, this
would be taken using mid, close and
extreme shots. The landing will be
shot with an extreme shot which
will capture his feet landing in
the soil.
Life’s a game made for everyone
and love is the prize.
6. 2:30 – 3:00 –He then gets up and
fixes his clothes, a close up shots
focuses on his neck. A extreme shot
is used to show two triangles on
his neck which relate to the artist
of the song.
So wake me up when it’s all
over, when I’m wiser and older.
All this time I was finding
myself, and I didn’t know I was
lost. (2x)
Slow motion will be used when he
reveals the triangles on his
neck and then walks away.
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VIDEO
AUDIO
LYRICS / NARRATION / MUSIC / FX
7. 3:00 – 3:30–Wide shot is used to
show him walking away from where he
fell and then an over the shoulder
shot is used. He then starts to see
the triangle carved into trees, he
realizes it’s the same on his neck
and an extreme close up is used of
him touching it. He follows the
trees and then finds a campsite and
friendly people with the same
triangle mark but in different
places. Close up shots are used to
show different parts of the camp
and the peoples reaction when they
see the main character. They all
greet the main character with
friendly gestures and point to
their marking to show how they are
like him. They offer him a drink, a
close up shot is used for this and
then pointed to a boom box/speaker
and then the camera pans out and
shows them all dancing/drinking.
Didn’t know I was lost, I didn’t
know I was lost; I didn’t know I
was lost. I didn’t know (didn’t
know, didn’t know).
Music fades out
I think at 0:00 – 0:30 when there is ‘distant sounds of cars,
and trees blowing in the wind’ where Ryan has put ‘wide low
angle of forest tree tops’ I think it’d be better if we could
fit in a visual of cars on a motorway to highlight the cars
and not just the trees.
At 00:30 – 1:00 where Ryan has said he wants a ‘mid shot of
the character walking towards the camera and then an extreme
close up shot of the characters eyes’ I think that technique
is good, but the lyrics are ‘they tell me I’m too young to
understand, they say I’m caught up in a dream’ I think it’d be
better if we make an edit of a little child playing but it’s
like a foggy dream so it’s defining the lyrics.
At 1:00 – 1:30 I don’t understand why there is home related
props used to define the lyrics ‘so wake me up when it’s all
over, when I’m wiser and I’m older. All this time I was
finding myself, and I didn’t know I was lost’ it doesn’t
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exactly relate to it and I think it’d be better if the
character was lay on the floor, using a close up shot of his
face and then his body to show he doesn’t want to be awake
until he’s wiser and older, and there should be clear signs
that he’s lost.