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Music Video Script

Title of Music Video: Mouth Moods: The End

 

Name of Creator: Niel Cicierega (remix)

(source material from Linkin Park and Doobie Brothers)

 

Time Visuals Lyrics / Music / Sound FX
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In this column, describe the music, write the lyrics, and add sound FX.*to the beat of “What a Fool Believes”-Doobie Brothers
0:32-0:46 Clock ticking, fade to black Didn’t look out below, watched the time go right out the window
Trying to hold on, didn’t even know
I wasted it all just to watch you go
I kept everything inside
And even though I tried it all fell apart
What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when I
0:47-1:04 SKELETON looks at screenCut to SKELETON STARTING to fall

Falls in slow motion

Cut to SKELETON hitting the ground with a flash

I tried so hard and got so far
But in the end, it doesn’t even matter
I had to fall to lose it all
But in the end it doesn’t even matter
1:04-1:11 Start cut on SKELETON JESTER’s face and zoom out. SKELETON JESTER is juggling to the beat of the music. One thing, I don’t know why
It doesn’t even matter how hard you try
Keep that in mind, I designed this rhyme to remind myself how
1:11-1:14 Cut to Close-up. The balls fall on the SKELETON JESTER’S head to the beat of the music. (I tried so hard)
In spite of the way you were mocking me
1:14-1:20 A colorful wave pattern wipes in. Its frequency is to the beat of the music Acting like I was part of your property
Remembering all the times you fought with me
I’m surprised it got so [far]
1:20-1:29 SKELETON heads flow into the frame, left to right undulating on the pattern… Things aren’t the way they were before
You wouldn’t even recognize me anymore
Not that you knew me back then
But it all comes back to me in the [ennndd]
1:29-1:35 The amount of heads on the pattern increases, getting crowded… I kept everything inside and even though I tried, it all fell apart
What it meant to me will eventually be a
Memory
1:35-1:37 The rest of the pattern wipes off the screen, fading to the next scene of a time when I (tried so hard)
1:36-1:43 A hole fades on to screen, pulsating lightly and growing in size. I tried so hard and got so far
But in the end, it doesn’t even matter
1:42-1:50 SKULLS start to fall in. The hole increases in size as the camera zooms out. I had to fall to lose it all
But in the end it doesn’t even
1:50-1:53 The hole is so large and SKULLS are so small that they are barely perceptible. The hole makes the whole screen black. Matt-er
1:53-1:57 Cut to medium-long shot of door I put my trust in you
1:57-2:01 Cut to medium shot with SKELETON with hand on door Pushed as far as I can go
2:01-2:03 SKELETON opening door For all this
2:03-2:09 Flip 179° to cut to other side of door, medium-long shot There’s only one thing you should know
2:09-2:13 Camera tilts back, revealing door is leading to nothingness I put my trust in you
2:13-2:18 Camera continues tilting, while dollying downwards and away Pushed as far as I can go
2:18-2:19 Cut to the dark chasm For all this
2:19-2:25 SKELETON falls into frame There’s only one thing you should kno
2:25 SKELETON falls out of frame -ow
2:25-2:33 Close-up of SKELETON head. Blinks once I tried so hard and got so far
But in the end, it doesn’t even matter
2:33-2:43 Cut to medium shot of SKELETON waving hands right to left and back I tried so hard and got so far
But in the end, it doesn’t even matt-er
2:43-3:32 Camera continuously zooms out slowly while spinning away. Gentle light pulsating until end of music. (It doesn’t even matter how hard you try)
(It doesn’t even matter how hard you try)
(It doesn’t even matter how hard you try)
(It doesn’t even matter how hard you try)I tried so hard

(I don’t know why)
(I don’t know why)
(I don’t know why)
(I don’t know why)
(It doesn’t even matter how hard you try)
(It doesn’t even matter how hard you try)

*Repeated to end*

 

https://youtu.be/3cXjcKTRWcg?t=32s