Music Video Production Treatment

Music Video – Practical Production Treatment and Plan for Edit Audio: Music and Lyrics - Architects by Ardie Collins

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00:08 We sang three cheers for mayhem, three cheers for loss 00:20 we found ourselves a silent coast twenty miles across and our music joined the air we seemed to catch it unaware

Establishing shots of beach. Tilt up from ground to focus on two people walking along cliff tops, walking down onto beach

00:26 00:39

Mid shot of shared look of determination between the two. Close up on hands emptying plastic bag of toy cars on beach, extreme close up on toys on sand.

And miles and miles of music stretched ahead and I know that you fancied yourself an architect you said we’ll build this ourselves and we will rest much better in our beds

00:45 00:56

pressing play on a portable music player. two people with plastic shovels begin to dig into sand and make piles. visible lump of sand begins to form.

The voices lingered in your bulging mind The recollections grew more undefined and they merged, make a horrific dirge

01:05 01:17

picking books from a shelf, examining titles etc. hots of piles of same books on beach, next to toy cars. one begins to read book, until the other pulls them up with a smile.

But us cynics and scoffers won’t get very far and they fell in love inside of a car and they drove until they ran out of road

01:24 01:34

one person stand on beach holding (empty) beer glass and a mess of fairy lights. Other person is working with the pile of sand. Argument breaks out when person working with sand tries to get other to help. One walks away.

And miles and miles of music stretched ahead and i know that you fancied yourself an architect and you said we’ll build it all ourselves and we’ll rest much better in our beds

01:42 01:52

sitting on beach away from sand piles, other looks at sea. lots of wide or long shots of sea and sitting person. other person appears and sits too. pointing to the sea, he mouths the words from “fancied yourself and architect” to “rest better in our beds”, though does not appear to be singing. First sitting person smiles.

By our own valition the night began to to groan and at our own admission it wasn’t time to go and the streets were worn down by our feet

02:06 02:18

By now the sun is beginning to set. The fairy lights are on, and lay on the pile of sand the two were working on, though what the sand is doing is not clear yet. The two appear to be working hard with the plastic shovels.

Two many drinks in too many bars too many nights without looking at the stars and we screamed at the sunset no more than hollow threats

But a cynics and scoffers won’t get very far and they fell in love inside of a car and they drove till they ran out of road

02:24 02:36

Close ups of smiling people adding the books, cars, and beer glasses to the pile of sand. The fairy lights are in some order now. They are talking, laughing.

and miles and miles of music stretched ahead and i know that you fancied yourself an architect you said we’ll build it all ourselves and we will rest much better in our beds yeah we’ll build this all ourselves and we will rest much better in our beds

02:42 03:17

Camera pulls back to revels a crude but large sand castle. Several shots focus on the placement of the miscellaneous items. The two look happy with their work. they laugh, talk and end up dancing around the sand castle. It is almost entirely dark by the end of the song, though the fairy lights still glowing bright.

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