BR · For Music Artists

The Four Questions

'I don't know what to say about my own song' ends here — the four questions turn any line into a script in two minutes.

Industry term · Story Mining

Runner ready

Line three of your newest song. Four questions. Two minutes. Go.

The play

How to run it

1
Pick one line from one song.
2
Answer all four questions in writing — one or two sentences each, no polish: WHERE were you? WHO's around? WHAT came before? HOW do you FEEL?
3
Read the answers back. That's the script. Film it as talking, as text over b-roll, or as captions over the song section.
4
The line itself lands last — the song becomes the payoff, not the pitch.

Related craft

Open the gap before the line closes it.

Or show the line first, and let the story explain it.

When the story runs as on-screen text.

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