Tuesday, 6 November 2012

Shake It Out music video, plot.


Scene 1: Break up. (Possibly subtitles.)

·         Music starts and the scene is drained of colour.

·         Over-shoulder shot – Jordan; “It’s not working out.”

·         OSS – Abbie; “Why not?”

·         LS – Abbie and Jordan are arguing.

·         LS – She throws something at him.

·         CU – Photo frame cracked.

Scene 2: Wake up

·         ECU – Abbie’s eyes, eyes closed.

·         CU – Abbie’s face, eyes opening, waking up.

·         LS – Establishes  the setting, Abbie looks confused

·         MCU – holds head

·         LS – Gets up, stumbles, looks around, and begins to walk.

·         LS – Track – Follow along path in town.

·         MS – Showing Abbie turn and look at a person talking on an iPhone

·         CU – Apple on iPhone

Scene 3: Snow White

·         CU – Apple in Jordan’s hand.

·         LS – From side (diagonal) – stumbles and drops apples.

·         LS – From side – apple rolling and Jordan chasing after it down the street.

·         CU – Apple stops rolling at Abbie’s feet, she picks it up.

·         MCU – Jordan bends down to pick it up as Abbie does.

·         MS – Both look at each other as she hands the apple to him.

Scene 4: Walking through town

·         MS – Walking through town, smiling.

·         LS – Walking through town.

·         LS – From behind – following Abbie, camera continues on following Red Riding Hood.

Scene 5: Red Riding Hood

·         LS – Following Red Riding Hood through the forest from behind, camera begins to move around, showing RRH from a more side angle, as RRH passes the picnic, the camera shift focus to it.

·         MS – Picnic scene. Jordan and Abbie laughing, flirting, eating.

Scene 6: Walking through town

·         LS – Walking through town.

·         MS – Walking through town, smiling.

·         LS – From the side – walking passed the florist.

·         MS – From the front – Stopping to look at the flowers.

·         CU – Rose.

Scene 7: Beauty and the Beast

·         CU – Rose petals on the floor.

·         Pans out as her feet go passed and then follows her from behind.

·         She gets some distance.

·         LS – From behind – as she walks around the corner, he is in front of her and he bends down on one knee to propose to her.

·         MCU – Happy face – Abbie

Scene 8 – Walking through town

·         MCU – Shaking her head of the memory.

Performance Scene?

·         LS – Walking

·         MS – Walking (different angle)

·         Pans from Abbie to a woman walking with a teddy bear in a bag.

·         MLS – Goldilocks is bumped in to and drops the teddy.

·         CU – Teddy bear on the floor.

Scene 9 – Goldilocks

·         CU – Teddy on the floor, hand comes into shot and picks up the teddy.

·         MS – Jordan handing the bear back to Goldilocks.

·         MCU – Goldilocks saying ‘thank you’.

·         OSS – (LS) of Jordan and Goldilocks talking from Abbie’s spot.

·         CU – Abbie’s angry expression and her shaking her head.

·         CU – Fists clenching.

·         MS – Jordan and Goldilocks talking, Abbie coming into shot from behind the camera, starts shouting at Jordan.

·         MS – Opposite direction. Shows Abbie’s face, she’s pointing at Goldilocks but not looking at her, while shouting at Jordan. Jordan keeps getting cut off.

Scene 10: Walking through town

·         MCU – Pensive expression, still walking.

·         LS – Walking, dog in the distance of the shot.

·         POV – Dog trotting towards her.

·         CU – Worried face

Scene 11: Three little pigs/Big bad wolf

·         CU – Worried face – lifts glass to drink

·         MLS – Drinking. (Fades between many changes of drunkenness.)

·         MS – Jordan walks in. “How much have you had?” Shakes head.

·         MLS – Jordan tries to take the drink off her. She pushes him back against the wall.

·         CU – Jordan scared looking stumbling back.

·         MCU – Flickering from Abbie to wolf and back.

·         MLS – Abbie stumbles off as a wolf, not caring.

Scene 12: Town

·         CU – Abbie realisation of Jordan in the distance.

·         LS – Jordan in the background, leaving shop.

·         LS – Abbie begins to speed up.

·         MCU – Jordan’s reflection in a shop window

Scene 13: Snow White: The Mirror

·         MCU – Jordan’s reflection.

·         MCU – Shoe on the stairs. (Put camera on zoom before filming.)

Scene 14: Realisation (Continued from 12)

·         MLS – Abbie stops running as Goldilocks comes out of the shop.

·         CU – Abbie looking confused.

·         MS – Jordan and Goldilocks flirting and laughing.

·         MLS – Going to sit down

·         LS – POV – Jordan and Goldilocks walking away, holding hands.

·         CU – Abbie on the bench, taking the ring.

·         CU – Ring on the bench, rocking.

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