FINAL SCRIPT

Script draft 4 detailed again

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This is the final version of the script. I've added one more colour coded category of 'misc' for miscellaneous, and I have ordered the visuals on screen scripted parts in bullet points so that the first bullet point of on screen, should match the first bullet point of the lyrics. Each point correlates to each line of the lyrics. The stock footage chosen has also been cut down and changed as a result of group discussions and decisions e.g. instead of the charleston dance, we have decided to cut to only the most relevant clips such as a young girl crying with her handkerchief, a mother holding her children weeping and so on though we kept the footage of a ship leaving shore as it was a perfect example for the visuals to illustrate the lyrics. Some of the original stock was also cut and a decision was made to flick back and forth between clips of famous leaders in war time speaking, of Bush, Churchill and the band with some protests in between. This was a matter to be finally decided in editing however, but this is the final working script with which we could finally go and shoot the video with and begin editing afterwards.

4TH DRAFT SCRIPT - WORK IN PROGRESS

Script draft 4 detailed edited

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This script is entirely different to the 3rd draft. To organise it better and make things much clear, I have laid it all out in a table with different verses in different boxes aligned with the scripted footage in a box beside it. Overall the table is divided into three: 'time marks', 'lyrics', and whatever should be showing visually 'on screen'. I've colour coded the types of footage we will have, stock, band, and narrative so visually anything we're looking for is much quicker and easier to find. I've labelled the verses and checked the time marks of each verse as well as instrumental parts in order to better plan and time what footage should happen when. This will also be useful when doing the editing, both for cutting the clips as well as syncing it to the sound.

3RD DRAFT SCRIPT

Script 3rd draft for king and country

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At this point everybody changed jobs a little and I became the scriptwriter. I worked on descriptions of the possible stock footage that we wanted to use, as well as descriptions of our own footage that we already had as well as planned to shoot. A time lapse of clouds in the sky is there to show the passage of time as well as a couple from the 20s doing the charleston dance before that to show all the light and happiness in life that was lost by the young soldiers who went off to war, proper performance shots were thought of collectively and written up here.

A modern day parallel is written in the narrative footage with the soldier before he goes off to war seeing the woman he will later marry at the bus stop, and later of him nervously buttoning his coat post-war leaving the house. He is no longer the same, and cut with stock footage of war in Afghanistan to give some context he looks over an old graduation photo adding pathos to the lines 'my pale schoolyard chums away lost country's call' - this cuts to footage of the names engraved in the war memorial, reflecting war times past and present and the great loss that soldiers have made for this country.

The second chorus is cut frantically between performance and narrative, with a loud noise shocking the already jumpy veteran with camera shots in uncomfortable close ups showing his anxiety and stock explosions, the camera spinning at a three hundred and sixty degree angle to show his inner turmoil. Another scene shows him waking up having nightmares with his wife shaking him awake, these narrative scenes are to show that he is no longer a normally functioning individual within society but rather tormented by the loss of his friends and the great suffering he has seen and is having difficulty adjusting - showing a real human being as opposed to a two dimensional character which glorifies the soldiers loss while airbrushing out all of the pain. At this stage the script is still being worked through, ideas being placed in and practicalities of the ideas being tested out, and it is not complete for ideas near the end and the beginning of the video isn't entirely decided either.

FILM PLANNING BY LAYERS SECOND DRAFT

Filming planning by layers 2

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This is a second draft of the layer plan for the music video but more detailed than the first with more ideas for the shots of nature we could film ourselves and possible stock footage to search for including nature: e.g. a low angle of the sunlight shining filtered through the trees leaves, a lens flare with the screen blurring out to a medium long shot of the band playing, a slow motion shot of someone blowing a dandelion, a direct shot of the sky above with birds flying across, and an empty children's playground.

2ND DRAFT SCRIPT

Second draft of script

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This is a second draft of the script with more ideas put in, particularly for the narrative. For example, ideas that weren't in there before were the transition from a christmas bauble on a tree the young sad sweetheart hung up zooming in then out to reveal a flying union jack, a scene with a few soldiers laughing with another sitting alone to the side looking at a photo of his girlfriend that he left back home who we just saw, a more detailed description of the opening scene of the camera's movement moving from the actor soldier to the sunny sky to the band and another scene where a soldier stands alongside his friend who's dying and coughing blood into a handkerchief. There's also more directly correlating scripted visuals to the lyrics, in terms of the children playing alongside 'my pale schoolyard chums', 'no summer blooms marked friends of mine' coinciding with a flower growing through a pavement crack and preceding the dying soldier and so on.

FILMING PLANNING - BY LAYERS

Filming planning by layers

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I wrote this in order to assist/speed up the scriptwriting process, along with contributions from the other members of my group. This was an early draft of a layer plan for the music video, just deciding what layers we wanted and of what with the group. I structured it in terms of the different layers we planned to include within our music video, and we began to include our ideas with what type of angle and shot we wanted of the different type of layer. From this it was thought it would be easier to copy and paste it into the script and flesh it out on the script a little bit more.

SCRIPT - 1st DRAFT

Script

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This was the very first draft of the script for the music video which was originally begun by Katy as she was originally the scriptwriter though we changed jobs and I became the scriptwriter a little later on. This script was written with the contributions of all of the group in discussions of ideas and what else we could put in. At this stage it's still largely unformed, and was just being put in a script like format with ideas thrown in.