Thursday 8 October 2015

Timeline of Annotated Lyrics

[Hook] [Set in Greenscreen (G), Shennans (S), House (H), Bedroom (B), Adobe Premier (AP)]

Tell me how you feel (S) (Tell me how you feel (S)
[[main character] opens eyes.]
[Perfect lip sync is key here.]
[On repetition, colour flickers]

I feel like the grass is green (S)
[Movement from [main character], uncrosses arms, touches the ground, causes full colour, this NEEDS to be timed with the green effect.]
[Lip sync.]

And everything I do is unseen. (B)
[Slow-motion split-screen shot showing [main character]; [male parent] and [female parent] can be seen arguing at table with documents on table (camera shot on level with [mother], with [father] standing over [mother] noticeably shouting), while the [main character] tucks [brother] into bed high-angled camera shot over [main character].]

But I know that’s just in my mind (B)
[Back to grey scale.]
[Cut to [main character] sitting, back against the wall, head in left hand, moving right hand to head to join left in slow motion.]
[Lip sync.]

I know everything is just in my mind (B)
[Camera zooms into [main character's] forehead, fade to black.]

Do you really wanna to be famous? (AP)
[Cut to magazine front cover with lyric-related headline featuring [main character].]

Do you really wanna be a superstar? (AP)
[Cut to another magazine front cover with lyric-related headline featuring [main character].]

Do you really wanna get dangerous? (AP)
[Cut to magazine front cover with lyric-related headline featuring [main character] posing with firearms.]

Do you even know where the groupies are? (AP)
[Cut to something with connotations of fans??]

Bitches out here be shameless
[Cut to something with connotations of shameless girls, possibly shadow of sexual act.]

And I really wonder where they parents are (G)
[Cut to parents in seaside cut-out]

Look around, everything changes (S)
[Opens eyes, back in Shennans, changes back to GREYSCALE.]
[Lip sync.]

It feels like I've been buried alive...
[Blackout?/literally being covered in mud, being buried???]








[Verse 1] [Set in Greenscreen (G) Graveyard (Gy), Kitchen (K) Bedroom (B) Urban (U)]

Everything happens for a reason (G)
[Lip sync.]

People only in your life for seasons (Gy)
[Possibility for panoramic shot.]

Word to Aunt Viv (Gy)
[She's dead. [main character] knelt next to (random??) gravestone placing flower.]

Death (Gy) and taxes that’s all we given (K)
[Fast cut from (Gy) to (K).]
[Camera positioned above father sitting at table evidently stressed, pile of papers on table... bills.]

You can make a life but can’t make a livin' (B)
[Split-screen shot? Bedroom, [brother] in bed, [mother] despairing at table.]

You can make it work but that still ain't driven (H)
[High-angled shot over mother in car, car is smoking she is evidently stressed]

Give a lot but that still ain't givin (H)
[Give money to mother, in smoking car]

Livin' life like this (H)
[In front of smoking car]

ain’t real though (G)
[[Main character] Tear through GREEN paper]

Every night like this I feel so (S)
[Under street lamp, lip sync.]

Dead wrong, (G)
[Lip sync.]

collision is head on (G)
[Green screen required here, [main character] in front of car crash behind them.]
[Lip sync.]

My vision is dead and gone (G)
[[main character], bandage around eyes.]
[Lip sync.]

Perception of right and wrong (G)
[Lip sync.]

I been here so very long (G)
[Green screen required here, [main character] in front of  time related visual, egg timer? clock? etc.]
[Lip sync.]

Right here in this very song (G)
[[main character] central of the shot pointing 'right here' downward.]
[Lip sync.]

Look around (G)
[Looking around.]
[Lip sync.]

everything changes (S)
[Opens eyes, back in Shennans, changes back to GREYSCALE.]

Seem like everybody (G)
[people walking]

just strangers (G)
[Blurred, moving shadows/shapes of people walking with no identity]

Don’t go outside  (Gy)
[lip sync.]

cause it’s dangerous (Gy)
[Lip Sync]

Why everybody wanna be famous (G)
[People grabbing [main character], pushes them away on 'famous'.]
Lip sync.]

I’m so OCD (G)
[Fix collar etc.]

if they notice me (G)
[Extreme close-up vision/eyes???]

I might jump out the grave (Gy)
[Jump from behind a grave]

so they know it’s me (G)
[Mid shot, pointing at self]

Man everybody want this shit for free (G)
[Lip Sync]

Hand out palm up when they get to me (U)
[[main character] "hand out palm up."]
[Lip sync.]

In my mind no (G)
[Put hands to head from hands out]

I never (S)
['NO' hand gesture exaggerated.]
[Lip sync.]

let it get to me (G)
[Lip sync.]

Everybody got a turn will it get to me  (G)
[Lip sync. Begin to turn, cut into next shot]
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V’s up motherfucka that’s victory (S)
[Extreme close up shot of "V" finger sign held in the air or swearing 'V' sign at camera out of grave???]

Tell me why what I’m doing ain’t shit to me (U)
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damn (G)
[Lip sync.]




[Bridge] Location: Garden (Ga)

Buried alive, buried alive (Ga)
[Establishing Shot]

Will I survive? (Ga)
[Close Up of face]
[Lip Sync]

Buried alive(Ga)
[Extreme Close up of face]
[Lip Sync]

I gotta know (G)
[Floating effect, standing infront of greenscreen]
[Lip Sync]

I gotta know (G)
[Floating effect, standing in front of green screen]
[Lip Sync]

It feels like I’ve been buried alive (Ga)
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Buried alive (Ga)
[Long Shot]

[14 second instrumental]
[mud flying about everywhere in slow motion, shows progression]




[Hook]
Tell me how you feel (S) (Tell me how you feel (S)
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I feel like the grass is green (S)
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[Lip sync.]

And everything I do is unseen. (B)
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But I know that’s just in my mind (B)
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[Lip sync.]

I know everything is just in my mind (B)
[Camera zooms into [main character's] forehead, fade to black.]

Do you really wanna to be famous? (H)
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Do you really wanna be a superstar? (H)
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Do you really wanna get dangerous? (H)
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Do you even know where the groupies are? (H)
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Bitches out here be shameless ()
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And I really wonder where they parents are (G)
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Look around, everything changes (S)
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[Lip sync.]

It feels like I've been buried alive...
[Smooth camera shot going into dug hole and then dipping to black]

[Verse 2] Road Crossing (Rc)

Let it breathe
[Lip sync.]
[[main character] breathes out smoke.]

I'm feelin' this villainous feelin' inside of my mind
[[main character] ]

Every time that I’m willing I feel like I'm killin' my dreams
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When that voice goes (Rc)
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nah, (Rc)
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nah, (Rc)
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nah (Rc)
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Listen up now
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Love it or hate it,


never debate it,
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you can never degrade it
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While all these other motherfuckers probably thinking
I made it
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My mind jaded
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no I never evade it
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I elevate it just to keep it innovative (innovative)
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God damn,
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bring it back now
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Blowin' up
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like Iraq now
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RattPack put me on the map now
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No we never back down
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Just take my time, I just take my time
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I know, Imma get it like this
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So everyone know that I did it like this
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Yeah, I know
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Imma take my time
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Battle the image inside of my mind
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I know, Imma keep going
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Tell me I can't but I'm already knowing
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I know, I'm gonna rise
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Even though
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I've been buried alive
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Buried alive,
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will I survive?
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I gotta know
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I gotta know
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It feels like I've been buried alive
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Buried alive
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????___________________ Can implement the below if necessary ___________________????

[Outro: Thalia]

Let it breathe
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Outkast
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A Tribe Called Quest
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers
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And films by Quentin Tarantino
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Were in  rotation constantly
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Throughout the duration of this album's creation
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