Music Video Script

Rascal Flatts

- What Hurts the Most

Reece Mechan

Music Video Script – First Draft

Music Video Script

Video Title: What Hurts The Most – Rascal Flatts

VIDEO AUDIO

LYRICS / NARRATION / MUSIC / FX

1. 0:00 – 0:30 – CU of girl crying (6s). Fades into a TS flashback of boyfriend and girlfriend arguing in the girlfriends room and the girlfriend pushes the boyfriend away (6s). Cuts into a CU of girl breaking down and screaming whilst crying (5s). Cuts to MS of girl getting a box full of photos out of a cupboard and starts emptying the box onto the bed (7s).

Intro (12s)

I can take the rain on the roof of

this empty house

That don’t bother me

I can take a few tears now and

then and just let them out

I’m not afraid to cry every

2. 0:30 – 1:00 – Cuts to CU of the photo the girl is holding (2s). Fades to ECU of the girl’s eye looking down with a tear coming out of her eye (5s). Cuts to another CU of the photo (3s). Fades to a TS flashback of the day when the photo was taken and we see him enter the room where she is getting her hair done and all her friends are there and they seem happy (7s). Fades back to another CU of a different picture (3s). Fades to a flashback, TS and MS of them both arguing outside of a house (3s). Cut to the couple walking into the house and she sees him flirting with another girl at the house and then they get for a group photo (7s).

once in a while

Even though going on with you

gone still upsets me

There are days every now and

again I pretend I’m OK

But that’s not what gets me

What hurts the most

Was being so close

And having so much to say

And watching you walk away

And never knowing

3. 1:00 – 1:30 – fades MS to her walking down the street and looking at different places on the street (4s). Fade to MS She looks at a house one her left (2s). Fade to TS of him leaving the house and he turns round and hugs the woman behind him (4s). Fade to CU of her legs whilst she’s walking (3s). Fade to CU of her looking at another place on the street (3s). Fade to TS of her and her boyfriend smiling and laughing outside of the place she was looking at (6s). Fade to TS of the girl with her friends acting like she isn’t sad and she’s acting as if nothing’s happened (8s).

What could have been

And not seeing that loving you

Is what I was trying’ to do

It’s hard to deal with the pain of

losing you everywhere I go

But I’m doing’ It

It’s hard to force that smile when I

see our old friends and I’m alone

Music Video Script

VIDEO AUDIO

LYRICS / NARRATION / MUSIC / FX

4. 1:30 – 2:00 – Fade to CU of girl laughing (3s). Fade to MS of the ex-boyfriend walking down the street (3s).

Still Harder

Getting up, getting dressed, livin’

with this regret

But I know if I could do it over

I would trade give away all the

words that I saved in my heart

That I left unspoken

What hurts the most

Is being so close

And having so much to say (much

to say)

And watching you walk away

5. 2:00 – 2:30 - And never knowing

What could have been

And not seeing that loving you

Is what I was trying to do, oh?

Instrumental (11s)

6. 2:30 – 3:00 – Fade to Flashback TS of the two people laughing (2s). Fade back to the flashback of them arguing used in first 30 seconds (2s). Fade to flashback of the scene where the girl is crying in the first 30 seconds (2s). Fade to MS of her leaving her house putting a jacket on (2s). Fade to CU of her legs whilst she’s walking (2s). Fade to her looking back at her house (4s). Fade to flashback TS of the two characters hugging (3s). Fade to CU of girls face as she’s walking up the street (4s). Fade to flashback TS of the two characters arguing in the street (6s). Fade to flashback of her taking the photos out of the box shown in the first 30 seconds of music video (3s)

Instrumental (6s)

What hurts the most

Was being so close

And having so much to say (to

say)

And watching you walk away

And never knowing

What could have been

And not seeing that loving you

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7. 3:00 – 3:30 – MS of the girl walking towards a window (5s). Cut to CU of the girls face looking out of the window (2s). Fade to a TS and POV from the girl’s perspective at her ex-boyfriend with another girl outside of her house (6s). Fade to a TS and MS of the guy being happier with the other woman (7s). Fade to CU of girls face showing a tear going down her face. (2s). Fade to black screen (2s).

Is what I was trying to do

Not seeing that loving you

That’s what I was trying to do

Instrumental (3s)