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Shooting Script

The document is a script for a music video by Bon Iver. It follows a man named Jonah who wakes up alone in nature, disoriented and searching for his family. Through flashbacks, it's revealed he had a close relationship with his father, who taught him to play piano. After a desperate search, Jonah eventually makes his way back to his father's house and is reunited with him.

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Shooting Script

The document is a script for a music video by Bon Iver. It follows a man named Jonah who wakes up alone in nature, disoriented and searching for his family. Through flashbacks, it's revealed he had a close relationship with his father, who taught him to play piano. After a desperate search, Jonah eventually makes his way back to his father's house and is reunited with him.

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WASH.

– BON IVER
SHOOTING SCRIPT
SONG “WASH. - BON IVER” AUDIO/
TIME MUSIC VIDEO SCRIPT LYRICS/NARRATION/MUSIC/FX
(VIDEO)
1 0:00- (EXTREME WIDE SHOT) Wind howls and the other
0:10 establishing shot of sounds of nature + birds etc.
nature. (INSTRUMENTAL FADES IN SLOWLY)
2 0:10- (WIDE SHOT) JONAH is Foley sounds + PIANO CHORD
0:14 lying on the floor in a INTRUMENTAL
torn suit in the middle
of a field with
mountainous
surroundings
3 0:14– (CLOSE UP + PUSH IN) REPEATING PIANO CHORD
0:17 Nature shots, wildlife INTRUMENTAL
etc.
4 0:17- (CLOSE UP + PUSH IN) He “Climb”
0:25 opens his eyes tilts “Is all we know”
his head up looking
around in confusion.
5 0:25- (MEDIUM SHOT) JONAH “When thaw”
0:29 sitting on the floor
face in palms of hands.
Looks down at clothes
and finds a picture.
6 0:29- (EXTREME CLOSE UP) “Is not below us”
0:35 Showing the picture of
him and his father.
7 0:35- (CLOSE UP) Showing “No cant”
0:39 JONAH’S face

8 0:40 – (MEDIUM SHOT CENTERED “Grow up in that Iron Ground”


0:45 FRAME) From behind
JONAH gets up of the
floor.
9 0:45 – (WIDE SHOT) He looks INSTRUMENTAL
0:50 around once again
overwhelmed with the
situation he has found
himself, looks down at
his suit and brushed
himself off.
10 0:50 – (WIDE SHOT) JONAH “Claire, All too sore for
0:55 starts to walk slowly sound”
still looking
everywhere for some
sort sign of human
life.
11 0:55 – (CLOSE UP + CENTRAL) INTRUMENTAL
1:01 Continue from previous
scene of him walking
but now from behind
12 1:01 - (CLOSE UP) JONAH rubs “BET IS HARDLY SHOWN”
1:06 his hands against the
grass
13 1:06 – *FLASHBACK* JONAH as a GLITCHY INTRUMENTAL
1:09 young boy playing in
the garden (QUICK CUT
FROM MAIN STORY TO
FLASH BACK)
14 1:10- (CLOSE UP + PUSH IN) “Scraped”
1:13 JONAH rubs his hands
against the grass.
15 1:13– (EXTREME CLOSE UP) INTRUMENTAL
1:16 JONAH’S eyes and face
*SHOCK*
16 1:16– (WIDE SHOT) Nature “Across the foam”
1:19 scene (Birds etc).
17 1:19- (MEDIUM SHOT + PULL “Like they stole it”
1:23 OUT) JONAH walking
towards the camera.
18 1:23– (FOLLOW CLOSE UP) “And, oh, how they hold it”
1:30 JONAH’S hands as they
touch the side of a
mountain.
19 1:30- (CLOSE UP) Flashback to “Claire, we nearly forfeit”
1:38 JONAH’S and his
father’s hands playing
the piano matching the
chords of the song
20 1:38- (MEDIUM SHOT + INTRUMENTAL
1:45 MOVEMENT) Flashback
JONAH and his father
playing the piano
21 1:45- (EXTREME WIDE SHOT) “I… I’m growing like the
1:50 Jonah running *MONTAGE* quickening hues”
22 1:50- (WIDE SHOT) JONAH
1:54 running
23 1:54- (MEDIUM) JONAH running “I… Im telling darkness from
2:00 lines on you”
24 2:00- (EXTREME WIDE SHOT)
2:03 Nature
25 2:03- (WIDE SHOT) JONAH’S “Over havens fora”
2:10 final stretch up the “Full and swollen morass,
mountain. young habitat”
26 2:10- (MEDIUM SHOT) JONAH “All been living alone”
2:17 looks around from the “Where the ice snap and the
top of the mountain but hold clast are known”
cannot seem to find
anything or anyone.
27 2:17 – (POV SHOT) Looking from INSTRUMENTAL
2:22 the top of the hill
over the landscape.
28 2:22- (WIDE SHOT) JONAH’S INSTRUMENTAL
2:27 knees buckle beneath
him and falls over
(SUNSET)
29 2:27-: (MEDIUM ESTABLISHING INSTRUMENTAL (FOLEY – Birds
2:30 SHOT) Lake environment. chirping)
30 2:30- (WIDE SHOT) INTRUMENTAL
2:35 JONAH walking along the
edge of the lake but a
day has passed since
the previous sequence
and he is still
searching for his
family.
31 2:35- (CLOSE UP + PUSH IN) Foley sound (WATER)
2:39 JONAH’S hands slowly INTRUMENTAL
brush against the lake
water
32 2:39- (CLOSE UP + HANDHELD) “Home”
2:44 Flashback to JONAH AND “We’re savage high”
FATHER playing in the
bath (Something to do
with water)
33 2:44- (EXTREME CLOSE Up) “Come”
2:47 Continuation of
flashback scene
34 2:47- *Continue*(CLOSE UP + INTRUMENTAL
2:53 PUSH IN) JONAH’S hands
slowly brush against
the lake water
35 2:53- (CLOSE UP)JONAHS face “We finally cry”
2:59 his face falls into his
palms (UPSET)
36 2:59- (MEDIUM SHOT) JONAH “Oh and we don it”
3:07 falls back onto the “Because its right”
ground. Pulls the
picture out of his
pocket and looks at it
again
37 3:07- (MEDIUM SHOT) JONAH INSRUMENTAL
3:11 gets up of the ground
38 3:11- (WIDE SHOT) JONAH “Claire, I was too sore for
3:18 continues to walk sight”
39 3:19- (WIDE SHOT) Change in INSRUMENTAL
3:23 scenery but he is still
walking (SMOOTH EDIT)
40 3:23- (EXREME WIDE SHOT)Stood INSTRUMENTAL
3:27 on top of hill JONAH
sees a car in the
distance.
41 3:27- (MEDIUM SHOT) Car “I…”
3:31 driving by
42 3:31- (CLOSE UP) JONAHS face “We’re sewing up through the
3:34 as he sees the car latchet greens”
43 3:34- (WIDE SHOT) JONAH “I… un-peel keenness, honey,
3:40 sprints for the car bean for bean”
trying to get its
attention
44 3:40- (CLOSE UP) The picture INSTRUMENTAL
3:44 of him and his father
falls out of his pocket
as he is running.
45 3:44- (MEDIUM SHOT) JONAH “Same white pillar tone as
3:47 looks back but ignores with the bone street”
it and continues to run
after the car
46 3:47- (WIDE SHOT) Car drives “Sand is thrown where she
3:53 off without noticing stashed us at”
JONAH. “All been living alone”
47 3:53- (WIDE SHOT) As he is “All been living alone”
4:00 running he falls and “Where the cracks at in the
trips over. low part of the stoning”
48 4:00- (MEDIUM + FOLLOW SHOT) INSTRUMENTAL
4:04 From behind JONAH
starts to follow the
road
49 4:04- (MEDIUM SHOT) MONTAGE INSTRUMENTAL
4:10 of JONAH FOLLOWING THE
ROAD as he continues to
walk.
50 4:10- (MEDIUM SHOT) He is “Enough of this”
4:14 still travelling and
everyone around him is
ignoring him.
51 4:14- (WIDE SHOT) JONAH stops “Give us the grown”
4:20 and looks almost “Give us the grown”
defeated but notices a
place he once
remembered.
52 4:20- (WIDE SHOT) FLASHBACK INSTRUMENTAL
4:24 to JONAH as a child
playing in that
forestry area.
53 4:24- (MEDIUM SHOT) JONAH INSTRUMENTAL
4:34 walking through a large
bush coming out the
other side cutting back
and forth between him
now and when he was
younger
54 4:34- (MEDIUM SHOT) INSTRUMENTAL
4:38 ESTABLISHING SHOT of
his fathers house
55 4:38- JONAH walking to the INSTRUMENTAL
4:42 door of the house
56 4:42- JONAH knocks on the INSTRUMENTAL
4:45 door of the house.
57 4:45- Waiting by the door INSTRUMENTAL
4:50
58 4:50- His father opens the INSTRUMENTAL (FADING)
4:55 door and they hug one
another.
59 CUT TO BLACK

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