Music Video Script

First Draft Music video script ‘Hold Back the River’ – James Bay

by Shauna Leacy & Emily Aldred

Music Video Script

Video Title: ‘Hold Back the River’

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.

Tried to keep you close to me,

But life got in between, Tried to

square not being there

But think that I should have been

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.

Hold back the river, let me look

in your eyes

Hold back the river,

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

so I can stop for a minute and

see where you hide

Hold back the river, hold back

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.

Once upon a different life

We rode our bikes into the sky

Music Video Script

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

But now we call against the tide

Those distant days are flashing

by

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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.

5:30 – 6:00 – 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

Hold back the river, let me look

in your eyes, Hold back the

river,

Cuts to new scene

So i can stop for a minute and

see where you hide

Hold back the river, hold back

Cuts to new scene

Hold oho, oho, oho, oho

Oho, oho, oho, oho

Lonely water, lonely water, won't

you let us wander

Let us hold each other

Lonely water, lonely water, won't

you let us wander

Let us hold each other