Music Video Timeline

Revised Timeline

0:0- solo artist playing in a wooden room with posters on the wall/ peeling wallpaper, wide shot – black ‘n’ white

0:01-0:05- still playing

0:06- cuts to the bedroom scene, wide shot from behind. Woman at dressing table, unmade bed and broken bottle on floor

0:08-0:09- man slowly walks forward and begins to sing, continuing with shot from behind, move to mid-shot of the top of head and shoulders.

Josh T. Pearson Performing

0:10-0:11- slowly walks around, camera moves to wide shot from left side (opposite side to woman at table)

0:12-0:13- panning round room, following man

0:14-0:18- continuation of above, camera hovers on dressing table revealing the skull ala ‘All is Vanity’

0:19-0:22 – then continues to follow man, he reaches door

0:23-0:26- exits from room, maintaining wide shot then zooming in on door handle as he leaves

0:27-0:31- films through key hole following his back and then cuts to performance element.

0:32-0:35 –performance element , wide shot

0:36-0:39 –performance element, zooming in on face

0:40-050 – close up of face, now zoom in through eye as though looking into his memories (Busted year 3000)

Such Items Adorn The Bar Counter

0:51-0:53 – cut to next scene, following distorted eye shot into dive bar, wide, establishing shot. From this an abstracted skull can be seen in the lights above the bar, with bottles on counter creating teeth.

0:54-0:56 – camera walks slowly towards him at bar, skull still visible

0:57-1:00- he is at bar, a whiskey is poured by barman and past to him, now on mid-shot, low lighting creates atmosphere paired with black and white.

1:01- 1:05- close-up shot of his reflection in whiskey

1:06-1:08- zoom out to him sprawled on bar, despairing and drunk

1:09-1:12- he gets up and staggers away

1:13-1:15- we see, through a wide shot, shot from behind standing at bar as he leaves through adjacent exit.

1:16-1:21- performance element, returning out of eye, wide shot of him singing, smoke trailing up from cigarette

1:22-1:25- follow smoke up, close up shot to ceiling

1:26-1:28- distortion of smoke takes to next scene

The Forest

1:29-1:31- next scene opens black then emerges into dark  street

1:32-1:35- shot from in front, camera follows him, wide shot staggering.

1:36-1:41- he lights up cigarette, close up of lips, lighter

1:42-1:44 – distortion on camera creates the effect of two eyes, zooming slowly out, set against wall, manipulation of smoke in after effects to create cranium.

1:45-1:46- remain on this shot

1:47-1:49 – zoom out, he walks through smoke and camera hover, mid shot on the broken smoke rings

1:50-1:54- cut to next scene, filmed from behind maintaining sense of following him. Establishing shot of woods, late evening, can film in day and adjust in editing.

1:55-2:00- camera stays still on wide shot as he walks forward, dancers in spooky white morph suits begin to enter shot – eerie dancing ala James Blake ‘overgrown’ .

2:01-2:03- zoom back onto back into close up shot of back of his head

2:04-2:06- swing around to face, lip synching, see dancers gaining ground and getting close

Slavador Dali's Skull

2:07-2:10- camera swings down to ground, showing feet, then forward revealing dancers to have over taken

2:11-2:14- he comes to stand still, POV shot revealing dancers

2:15-2:20- they assemble into Dali skull

2:21-2:22- continuation

2:23-2:27- he slowly walks towards them, wide shot from behind now

2:28-2:30- continuation

2:31-2:36- stops infront of them

2:37-2:40-close –up of his eyes, dancers reflected in them (Escher)

2:41-2:43- zoom out to face, pensive expression, faced with death… his eyes close and he looks up

2:44-2:48- camera pans up to night sky

2:49-2:51- return to performance element, close up of face singing

2:52-2:54- zoom out to wide shot

2:55-2:57- he sings last note

2:58-3:00 looks down and screen fades into black

This one is called 'Revised Timeline' simply because we didn't have enough time to actually finish our original timeline before we had to change our story to something completely different. Stay tuned for the Revised Treatment, coming soon.