Wednesday, 19 September 2007

Final Treatment

Location: Grovelands Park

Actors: Paul, Zoe, Jasmine, Gemma, Ben, Chloe, Ellie, Sezan, Mishael, Caroline

Song starts - 0.00 mins

  • Music Video begins with a zip opening in front of the camera to reveal a person playing the drums. Close-ups on eyes, hands, feet, drums, cymbal.
  • Cut to wide shot of the drummer and the microphone, with the guitarist walking in from the right, playing.
  • Guitarist stops walking and continues to play, close ups of hand strumming, face, arc around guitarist.
  • Cut to female singer walking towards the camera as it tracks backwards to the microphone.
  • Cut to male singer walking towards the camera as it tracks backwards to the microphone.
  • Cut to long shot of the singers stopping at the microphone, band members in the background. Female singer holds the microphone stand and they both pose.
  • Cut to extreme close-up of the judges eyes, and track across.

1st Verse - 0.18 mins

  • Cut to female singer lipsynching, extreme close-ups of lips, hands, eyes, faces.
  • Cuts throughout to guitarist, drummer and singers. Close-ups, over-the-shoulder shots, tracking shots (drummer, singer) , track-pan (guitarist), half-arc (singer).
  • Cut to judge drinking water, underneath glass, LA.

1st Chorus - 0.28 mins

  • Cut to male singer - I play the bass
  • Cut to female singer - Tu joues du la basse
  • Cut to floor shot of feet running past the camera - I play the piano
  • Cut to close-up of female singer singing to male singer - Who's gonna sing?
  • Cut to male singer - I play the synth
  • Cut to torso's/heads running- Tu joues du synthĂ©
  • Cut to male singer - I play the rhodes
  • Cut to close-up of female and male singer singing to camera - Who's gonna sing?
  • Cut to judges - I play the bass
  • Cut to female singer - Aussi du bongos
  • Cut to characters POV running towards back of band/heads running - I play the piano
  • Cut to female and male singer singing to camera, characters running towards them in the background - Who's gonna sing?
  • Cut to male singer - I play the synth
  • Cut to female singer with characters in the background coming towards her (closer than before) - Un peu de banjo
  • Cut to female and male singer by the microphone about to sing when their heads are pushed apart by character A - Who's gonna sing?

2nd Verse - 0.48 mins

  • Cut to judges flipping over a page on their clipboard in unison
  • Cut to character A pushing female singer to the floor, close-ups on hands, and then grabbing the mike and start singing.
  • Cut to character B pulling male singer by the tie, close-ups on grabbing tie.
  • Cut to close-up of character A singing to camera, Pan down to the floor to see singer getting up and brush herself off
  • Cut to drummer getting pushed off the drums by character C, who then picks up the sticks and continues playing.
  • Cut to guitarist having his guitar taken off of him by character D, who then continues playing.
  • Cut to close-up of judge ticking a box.

2nd Chorus - 1.07 mins

  • Cut to character A singing, LS. (C drums, D guitar) - I play the bass
  • Cut to female singer taking out mobile and dialing - tu joues des congas
  • Cut to character B singing, LS. (A drums, C guitar) - I play the piano
  • Cut to character C singing, LS. (D drums, B guitar) - who's gonna sing ?
  • Cut to character D singing, LS. (B drums, A guitar) - I play the synth
  • Cut to female singer shouting on the phone. - un peu de sitar
  • Cut to character C singing, CU. - I play the rhodes
  • Cut to character A singing, CU. - who's gonna sing ?
  • Cut to character B singing, CU. - I play the bass, de l'harmonica
  • Cut to character D singing, MS. - I play the piano
  • Cut to female singer singing angrily on the phone. - who's gonna sing ?
  • Cut to floor shot of lots of feet running towards camera. - I play the synth
  • Cut to judges drinking water in unison. - aussi du saxo, I play the rhodes
  • Cut to characters A, B, C and D singing. - who's gonna sing ?

3rd Verse - 1.27 mins

  • Cut to MS of group of characters running from right to left (down inverforth path)
  • Cut to group of characters coming round the corner (from inverforth)
  • Cut to characters A and B singing the verse, CU
  • Cut to group of characters running away from camera, downhill towards the lake, LS
  • Cut to CU of group of characters faces running from left to right, lake in the background
  • Cut to characters A and B singing the verse, CU
  • Cut to LS of group of characters running downhill into the woods
  • Cut to LS of group of characters running towards the camera through the woods (camera on bridge)
  • Cut to LS of group of characters running away from camera (camera on bridge)
  • Cut to CU of characters A and B singing, track back to character E throwing a punch at character A, character F pulling character B's hair (slow-mo starts)

Bridge - 1.47 mins

  • Cut to CU of character E throwing a punch (slow-mo)
  • Cut to CU of character F pulling hair (slow-mo)
  • Cut to LS of character G running with the frying-pan towards camera (slow-mo)
  • Cut to MS of character H running with a flask of 'acid' to the right (slow-mo)
  • Cut to CU of character I grabbing character J and headbutting them (slow-mo)
  • Cut to MS of character K on character L's back, hitting them/pulling hair (slow-mo)
  • Cut to LS of character M charging through, shoulder-barging people (slow-mo)
  • Cut to CU of character N slapping character O (slow-mo)
  • Cut to LS of characters P, Q and R running towards camera (slow-mo)
  • Cut to CU of character S turning to camera (slow-mo)
  • Cut to MS of a character holding the number one - Une!
  • Cut to MS of another character holding the number two - Deux!
  • Cut to MS of another character holding the number three - Trois!
  • Cut to MS of another character holding the number four - Quatre!

3rd Chorus - 2.06 mins

  • Cut to CU of E punching A - I play the bass
  • Cut to CU of F pulling B's hair - tu joues de la basse
  • Cut to CU of G hitting a character with the frying pan - I play the piano
  • Cut to WS of 3 characters singing (perhaps with fighting crowd in the back) - Who's gonna sing?
  • Cut to CU track back of H running and throwing her flask of acid on a character - I play the synth
  • Cut to WS of I headbutting and fighting with J - tu joues du synthĂ©
  • Cut to MS of K on L's back pulling/hitting them - I play the rhodes
  • Cut to WS of 6 characters singing (perhaps with fighting crowd in the back) - Who's gonna sing?
  • Cut to MS track back of M shoulder-barging people - I play the bass
  • Cut to CU of N slapping O and fighting - Aussi des bongos
  • Cut to CU of P, Q, R running towards S and circling him - I play the piano
  • Cut to WS of 12 characters singing (perhaps with fighting crowd in the back) - Who's gonna sing?
  • Cut to CU of S adopting a kung-fu pose and fighting P, Q and R (fast-mo) - I play the synth
  • Cut to CU of judges sitting when characters come and spray them with silly string - un peu de banjo, I play the rhodes
  • Cut to WS of whole group turning to camera and singing - Who's gonna sing?

Weird bit at the end - 2.26 mins

  • WS of group fighting
  • CU/ECU of individual fights
  • ECU/CU of dancing/individual movements
  • WS, track CU of judges leaving
  • Everyone at the microphone singing - Who's gonna sing?
  • Character T walking in rapping/beatboxing (weird noises)
  • CU Character A smiling at camera and starts to punch
  • CU Character T getting punched and falling to the floor
  • ECU of Character T's head falling to the ground, and shot zips back up - (Final weird noise)
  • WS of every character falling to the ground - (Final weird noise)

Song ends - 3.03 mins

Composed by the whole group, Typed by Paul

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