‘Life in Her Yet’

Rag’n’Bone Man

by

Talia Vachman, Sonia Filipa Soares-Eusebio, Alister Pearlman and Omer Muratoglu

VIDEO AUDIO

LYRICS / NARRATION / MUSIC / FX

1. SCENE 1INT: A bed in a cluttered bedroom of average size towards the upper center from the door next to it is a bedside table with a simple lamp resting on it along with a few books, tissues and some pills.The camera slowly fades in, revealing an close up of the aged face of a woman, her eyes are closed. As the picture is fully visible, the woman's eyes open suddenly.

“No Lyrics.”

Before music starts

(00:04) seconds

2. Once her eyes open, we zoom into her iris,rotate 360 degrees to show her family and the use of a graphic match cut to dissolve into the next scene.SCENE 2

CUT IN:

“No Lyrics.”

As the music starts

(00:04-00:14) seconds

FX (Muffled speech)

3. EXT:In a large green space the audience see some trees off in the distance and a few benches. Nearby there is a lake. The edges are faded to show it’s a memory, possibly tinting the general colour of the scene to give an old, past tense effect.The iris dissolves into a ball on the ground that is picked up by a man joined by his family of a woman and little boy in a clearing of treeS.(long shot)He throws it to the woman, presumably his wife,who throws it to her son. They are laughing and running around

“She still remembers a time that was

uncomplicated”

As the music starts

(00:14-00:29) seconds

FX (Echoed laughter)

4. (mid shot)She sees her husband falling and the ball is dropped, which we see in slow motion. Then the ball bounces. As it bounces, the “close up” slow motion is replaced by standard motion. Then the hand falls next to the ball.

CUT TO:

SCENE 3

“But sure as the sun rise she’s seeing things that

you’ll never see”

Music is playing

(00:29-00:38) seconds

5. INT: Back to present day,the “Losses and heartaches amount to her strength/

woman is in an armchair in the living room with a fireplace and lined with books. The woman is laughing and playing with a little girl(granddaughter) that is playing with dolls. This is seen through a long shot in slow motion.

But oh how they all take their toll”

Music is playing

(00:38-00:48) seconds

FX (A faint scream/ sobs)

6. The camera pans to the left, showing a younger man, standing in the doorway and as the lyrics start, he mouths along with them, until he says “life in her yet”, he seems distraught,watching her from behind.

CUT TO:SCENE 4

“She’s still here fighting

Better know there's life in her yet”

Music is playing

(00:48-00:57) seconds

7. The over the shoulder shot of the young man then transitions, using a match cut, to turn him into a the boy from the flashback.EXT:The scene dissolves to a cemetery the weather is miserable, where a group of mourners stand in front of a cross grave stone.we can see from the shot that he is at a funeral. We can see the mother standing towards the open grave, crying/ looking numb with looking straight ahead,with empty eyes.SCENE 5

“Time will take us all, and turn us into stones

It leaves us with regrets and picks apart the threads

Hung over fragile bones”

Music is playing

(00:57-01:17)

8. CUT TO:

Cuts to the woman in present day through match cut, her heading the same position as previous shot. The camera pans backwards through the door to reveal the man (her Son) and his back to the wall of her bedroom, where he slides down and lifts his arms to cover his face after mimicking the lyrics.

CUT TO:

“Let her go

I can’t let her go

I can’t let her go”

Music is playing

(01:17-01:27)

9. INT:In a bedroom, on an armchair, the woman is looking through old photographs of random things until she comes across a picture of her wedding day in which her hands are the main subject in the picture. The camera then focuses

“Her hands tell the story of hardships that we’ll

never know”

Music is playing

01:27-1:37)

on her aged hands holding the photo. She lifts her head and looks up through the window.

10. Then the camera focuses on a boy outside from the window in the garden before focusing on the reflection of her face in the window, watching the boy with a worn out face. The next shot cuts to a close up of her eyes looking out into the distance.

“Her face is a map of her lifetime on well travelled

roads

But those eyes tell nothing of a soul that is spared

A heart that is longing for death”

Music is playing

(01:37-01:57)

11. INT. Present day, the woman is in her house in a living room with windows draped in curtains and bookshelves lining a wall opposite a brown sofa. She is laughing silently with a little girl, playing around with knitting tools. It is shown in mild slow motion, close ups of her face as well as with the little girl.

“She’s still here fighting

Better know there’s life in her yet”

Music is playing

(01:57-02:05)

12. EXT. In the present day, (long shot) the woman revisits the grave of her husband and her son joins her. She turns to him and takes his hand. He bows his head, sad but she lifts his head with her hand and then they embrace each other in a hug sharing their sorrow.

“Time will take us all and turn us into stones

It takes us with regret and picks apart the threads

Hung over fragile bones”

Music is playing

(02:05-02:25)

13. The first shot repeats, her head in the center of a stark white pillow, with her pale skin clashing against it. Flashes of her life show as the lyrics are repeated over and over again. We see a photo of her and her husband on their wedding day, a mid shot with them both smiling happily at the camera, another quick flashback, a mid shot of her son crying and having a tantrum while she holds him in her arms, barely containing herself, A extreme long shot of the park shown in the first scene, with the clearing that the husband died in being in the center, with the collection of trees around it , as the let her go’s are sung, these scenes repeat over and over, speeding up and cutting as fast as four times each line, switching between the

“Let her go

I can’t let her go

I can’t let her go

Let her go

I can’t let her go

I can’t let her go

Let her go

Let her go

Let her go”

Music is playing

(02:25-02:45)

shots and the shot of her eyes, wide open. on the last “let her go, the eyes close, bookending the video”

14 The music fades out as the image of the woman with her eyes closed fades to white.

No lyrics

Music fading out

(02:45-02:55)