LAUAN603 - Music Video Script

Notes form Mike's feedback on Script:

• Timing, be specific on music video sections, the cat is the accidental musician- fits with music, not just making random sound effects.

• Solidify the timing of sections of the track with the storyboard and a draft animatic, ready for Alex's collaboration for his refined animatic and storyboard.

Because I am doing a music video, the timing is essential, for all sections of the script, more than I originally thought. Two animatics, one rough and one refined will help specifics for the whole of production. Once this has been established, the rest of the production should be effectively quick to complete.

SCRIPT: (each sentence is a separate shot)

STAGE SETUP

Scene 1:

Shot 1: 00:00

Cat: (Title screen is the centre of shot in the background, behind the stage ‘The Black Cat’ band name with logo) 

Shot 2: 00:07 - 00:11 - 00:14 -
*Cat jumps on stage in foreground and begins walking under silhouetted tall propped up guitar and microphone, on stands high above Cat, title screen and logo overhead* (Similar to the outro, the intro starts with a fade in, using a black and white desaturation effect into colour).

**The sound of smart shoes shuffling about in the background darkness, behind the stage**

Shot 2: 00:17

*Spotlight suddenly turns on lighting up the cats position with the guitar and mic*

Shot 3: 00:18
Cat: *Jumps to the back, heading for the drum set for cover form the bright (coloured) light


Shot 4: 00:21

Cat: (1st person perspective) *Hiding amongst the drum set watching the Silhouette of the singer in the (coloured) spotlight, the light glows off the guitar and characters outfit (lines slightly blurred from colouring to emphasise the brightness)

Singer/guitarist: *approaches the guitar and mic to start singing playing the track and singing the lyrics*

**the sound of a mic ringing**

**the sound of a guitar plug-in**

Scene 2:

Shot 5: 00:28

Cat: (3rd person perspective view of cat) *Hiding under the drum set, the cat expresses a look of confidence with his default sly facial expression, enjoying the music, maybe moving to the sound a little.

Shot 6: 00:38

Cat: (camera enhances on cats face to express his facial expression of surprise/shock) *Suddenly looks up in surprise as another spotlight hits his position.

**Drum set cymbals sound**

Shot 7: 00:44

Drummer: (fisheye lense looking up at the big silhouette of this large drummer character) *Sitting behind the cat at the drum set*

Shot 8: 00:49

Cat: (Shot zooms out to view the two currently introduced characters, the singer/guitarist and the drummer on the first half of the stage) *Realises there is someone behind him and is shocked at the size of the drummer character and runs away from the drum set* 

Shot 9: 00:55
(Both band characters in the shot and playing their parts of the track at this point as the cat runs off screen to the right side of the stage. As a plot device, the cat is running away to introduce more characters on the second half of the stage).

Shot 10: 01:01

Cat: *Jumps up on long looking abstract keyboard synthesiser, walks slyly again, pressing neon looking colourful setting keys, and jumping hesitantly at the sound effects each time.

Shot 11: 01:03

**Cat plays some odd keys matching the music, and is brushed off by band member**

Shot 12: 01:09

Again, another spotlight lights up the keyboard with the cat on top.

Cat: (Shot zooms out to show the surroundings in the light) *Jumps in surprise*

Keyboardist/Synthist female character: *Hand reaches down after cat to play synth.

Shot 13: 01:14
Band shot

**Plays the Synth keys**

Scene 3:

Shot 14: 01:19

Cat: (low ground shot facing up at the edge of the keyboard as the cat jumps down towards the camera, camera transitions into black form the cat).

Shot 15: 01:23
*Lands onto a Bass guitar, unintentionally strumming the bass strings*

**Low Bass string sounds**

Shot 16: 01:26

Cat: (audience 1st person perspective of the cat looking at another guitarist reaching down towards the camera shot/cat) *Does not react, looking suddenly confident not jumpy*

Shot 17: 01:28

Bass guitarist: (camera transitions into the guitarists 1st person view) *Looking down at cat and reaching his hand to pet the back of the cat’s neck*

Cat: (the 1st person perspective of the guitarists face) *Squinting cat facing onto the shot, looking comfortable in this characters presence instead of running away*

Shot 18: 01:32

Cat: (Still in the guitarists 1st person perspective) *Gets distracted from being pet, watching the hand moving to pick up the bass guitar instead*

Shot 19: 01:33

Cat: (Jumping off the bass guitar in surprise, as it is suddenly picked up and played by the guitarist).

Scene 4: END of STAGE SETUP

Shot 20: 01:36

(Camera zooms out further to show all characters playing their song, cat jumping off stage similar to how he entered the stage).

Shot 21: 01:38

*Lights all change colour to white and dip low, showing a darker stage and silhouetted characters, but the screen at the back with the logo starts glowing, showing the cat head logo*

Shot 22: 01:40

(Camera Zooms towards the main singer, similar to previously, showing the first half of the stage with drummer and synth characters). *One of the spotlights dipped low at the back, moves to focuses on the singer in the same shot*

Shot 23: 01:44

Singer/guitarist: (Zooms in on singer, low shot fisheye inspired abstract view, slowly rotating while the character plays) *Singer strumming and expressing nerdy characteristics through facial expressions and head pounding with his bowl cut, drummer playing in background).

Shot 24: 01:47

Drummer: (Shot switches to drummer playing his disco drums) *Firm shoulders while drumming, head looking ahead while bobbing to the beat*

End Scene 5:

Shot 25: 01:54

(lights flash to transition the scene, zooming out from the drummer, showing all the band characters, another flash transitions again moving up into the rafters of the stag framing on the left side.

Shot 26: 01:59

Cat: (Final shot, zooming further out, from high above the stage looking down at the band, birds eye view form the left side, drawn out perspective, metal framing visible becoming the foreground) *The cat is slowly walking in the foreground on the framework of the lighting, looking down sternly below at the band*

Shot 27: 02:01

(Final shot, lights fading to black, the coloured spotlights fading and the shadows growing around the silhouette of the cats head, similar to the logo behind the stage).

Cat: