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Music Video Script
Video Title: The 1985 – So Far(It’s Alright)VIDEO AUDIO
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1. 0:00 – 0:30 –
Moving Establishing Shot of Manchester skyline on the tram.Medium Close Up of female character looking towards the camera.Moving shot continuedExtreme Close up of a hand grabbing female characters arm.Close up & Extreme close up of female character crying.Tracking Shot following female character around Media City, Salford Quays.Over the shoulder tracking shot of female character looking out over The Quays.
Introduction (5 Secs)
(0:05) Yeah so far, it's alright,
alright, baby (x2)
Yeah so far, it's alright, alright,
baby (x2)
Yeah it's the way we are
We were smoking by 11 and
knocking round town
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2. 0:30 – 1:00 –
Hand Held Shot of The Quays bridge at night with the lights shining.Close Up of group of friends laughing on steps.Medium Shot of boy balancing and walking up a hand rail.Close Up of boy looking and laughing directly into the camera.Long Shot of boy at the top of the rail throwing his arms in the arm.
Beat em' ups on my arm
We were never good at selling
Couldn't cut down
And I stay with my father, while his
friends die of heart attacks
He's got a heart made of stone but
he never gets cold because the
sun's always on his back
I used to think you're cool and I
believed you had a wonderful
vision,
But I soon found out you're a
terrible friend and your mother's
on the television
Gives a go on your bike, how you
getting along with your life
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3. 1:00 – 1:30 –
Upwards Tracking shot from the female character’s ice skates being put on, up towards her face.Wide range of Hand Held camera shots of the female character with her boyfriend and friends at ice skating.Close Up of female character dances with her boyfriend and both of them turn towards the camera smiling.Hand Held tracking shot of both the female character and her boyfriend as they are skating around the ice skating rink.
It's alright, yeah it's alright
Yeah so far, it's alright, alright,
baby
Yeah so far, it's alright, alright,
baby
Yeah so far, it's alright, alright,
baby
Yeah so far, it's alright, alright,
baby
Oh well I'm coming to the end of
23 she said, is that alright?
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4. 1:30 – 2:00 –
Close Up of boyfriend talking into the camera.Extreme Close Up of female character looking into the mirror and crying, with mascara running down her face.Tracking Shot of the couple walking together.Medium Wide shot of the couple hugging and looking out over the landscape with the faint Manchester skyline in the distance.Close Up of female character with her head in her hand.Extreme Close Up of a tear rolling down her face.Long Shot of the couple holding hands and walking towards the camera.Over the shoulder shot of the coule walking together.
And it's coming to the end of you
and me she said, is that alright?
And how can you complain about
life and talk about being bored
If you just sit at Pete's house
playing video games, doing sniff
that you can't afford?
I can't be picking up in the town
So get me one off Adam if he's
sorting you out
I don't really get what all your
friends are about,
I was always looking for a way to
get out,
A true reflection of the size of your
house, a silver spoon and zoot in
your mouth
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5. 2:00 – 2:30 –
Variety of hand held tracking shots of Manchester city centre and Christmas market.Long Shot of the couple holding hands walking up a hill away from the camera.Close Up of boyfriend holding the female character in his arms as they lookout at the landscape.Extreme Close Up of female character wiping her tears.Static Close UP of female character with her hair covering part of her face as she is crying.Long angled Close Up of boyfriend looking towards the camera laughing.
But you're alright, yeah it's alright
Yeah so far, it's alright, alright,
baby
Yeah so far, it's alright, alright,
baby
Yeah so far, it's alright, alright,
baby
Yeah so far, it's alright, alright.
So here we are, it's quarter to 11
We're knocking round town
Pushing in, in the bar
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6. 2:30 – 3:00 -
Tracking shot showing a 360 degree shot of bare tree branches and the sky.Close Up shot of female character laughing into the camera on a bed.Tracking shot of a wall of CDs in a shop and the female character as she browses through the CDs.Hand Held camera shots of Manchester high-street.Hand Held Close Up of female character talking and smiling into the camera.Moving Tracking shot of Manchester at night from the inside of a car.Close Up of female character hiding her face away from the camera.
you can cry until 11, it's a quarter
of an hour
And why stay if you hate it so
much?
You think you're well cool,
You just write about sex and killing
yourself and how you hardly ever
Went to school
Don't you wanna take me up in the
clouds,
Pretend that I'm the one and you
can show me about,
She was talking marriage so we
had to get out,
Now he's making up for it by
sleeping about
The ultimatum's a ridiculous joke
I'm gonna pick the option that
allows me to smoke
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7. 3:00 – 3:30 –
Medium Close Up of the couple smiling and facing each other.Continued moving Tracking shot of Manchester from within the car.Long Shot of female character smiling as she is ice skating.Tracking Shot downwards on the group of friends lay each step of the stairs, looking towards the camera.Medium Shot of boyfriend with his arm around the female character as she is checking her phone.Static Medium Shot of boyfriend shoving female character and grabbing her arm violently.Extreme Close Up of female character chest as she reveals a bruise on her collar bone from underneath her top.Cross Cuts between Close Ups of the female character crying and her boyfriend grabbing her.Close up downward tracking shot of the female character as she reveals more bruises on her arms
But I'm alright, yeah it's alright
Yeah so far, it's alright, alright,
baby
Yeah so far, it's alright, alright,
baby
Yeah so far, it's alright, alright,
baby
Yeah so far, it's alright, alright,
baby
8. 3:30 – 3:55 –
Extreme Close Up of female characters bruises on her arm in the mirror.Close up of female characters face with mascara smudge and running down her face with tears.Over the shoulder close up shot of the female character as she looks up towards the mirror glancing in the direction of the camera.
Black background shot of the Bands name in white followed by the music videos credits and song title.
Shot of black background at the end.
Instrumental Ending of the song
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