Music Video Script

First Draft Music video script ‘Desire’ – Years & Years

by Shauna Leacy & Emily Aldred

Music Video Script

Video Title: ‘Desire’

VIDEO

AUDIO

LYRICS / NARRATION / MUSIC / FX

<Over the whole video is a grainy

slight old fashioned tint some

scenes black and white>

1. 0:00 – 0:30 – Shot of girl sat facing towards her TV, she picks up

her remote the end of a video begins

to play.

No sound only of the girls

movements as she picks up the

remote

2. 0:30 – 1:00 – The girl then rewinds the video on her screen back to the

start and presses play.

<Rewind sound>

3. 1:00 – 1:30 – As the camera begins to zoom in towards her TV, the video

starts to play from the start the

video starts with a someone filming

a record beginning to play the turn

table begins to spin.

<Sound of a turn table>

Music begins to play off of the

vinyl when it starts playing

<intro of the song>

4. 1:30 – 2:00 – The camera then moves onto friends getting ready to go out

you see the girl with the camera in

the reflection of the mirror filming

her friend as her friend waves and

smiles at the camera.

I must be tough, I must be behave,

I must keep fighting, I want to

keep us compromising, open your

arms and pray To the truth that

your denying, give into the truth,

to the sense that you’ve been

hiding

5. 2:00 – 2:30 – The friends start to get there coats on and begin to walk

down the stairs one of the friends

is always filming so you see the

cameras point of view following the

friends out of their zoom down the

stairs and out of the house as the

friends turn and look at the camera

smiling.

where are you taking me? I can’t

be blamed, I want you to want me

again Is it desire, or is it love

that im feeling for you, I want

desire, cause your love only gets

me abused

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6. 2:30 – 3:00 – The friends are all sat on the train a different friend

has hold of the camera as they film

the others laughing and joking on

the train, then it cuts to the

camera facing out of the window.

Cuts to new scene

give me that rush, I want to show

you what you’ve been missing, am I

enough? To keep your other lovers

hidden

7. 3:00 – 3:30 – Then the camera is placed on the table facing the

friends slightly pointed upwards as

the friends play a game of cards.

Where are you taking me? I can’t

be blamed, I want you to want me

again, is it desire? Or is it love

that im feeling for you

8. 3:30 – 4:00 –They are walking along the docks at Liverpool pointing

towards to water and joking around

walking along the steps and turning

every now and then to face to

camera.

Cuts to new scene

I want desire cause your love

only gets me abused, is it desire,

or is it love that im feeling for

you, I want desire, cause your

love only gets me abused

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4:00 – 4:30 – Then cuts to a concert

scene where you see the person face

the camera towards their friend next

to them and then to the stage

4:30 – 5:00 – You see the friends

sat in a café all just sat on sofas

talking as one of the friends film

them the person holding the camera

films themselves picking up their

drink and drinking it from their

point of view.

5:00 – 5:30 – Then it cuts to the

friends messing about in a car park

sitting in the shopping trolley’s

whilst one friend films then the

person with the camera films

themselves getting pushed in the

trolley.

12.5:00 – 5:30 – Scene ends with a

low down shot where the camera is

placed on the ground as the friends

start to walk away only seeing the

back of them.

Cuts to new scene

you know that you’ve got me,

you’ve locked me down, you tell me

you want me, you need it now,

Cuts to new scene

you know that you’ve got me,

you’ve locked me down, you tell me

you want me now

Cuts to new scene

is it desire or is it love that

im feeling for you, I want desire,

cause your love only gets me

abused

is it desire or is it love that im

feeling for you, I want desire I

wanna see what your willing to

loose