Line by Line Plan

I just wanna go back, back to 1999 – Establishing shots of essays, papers, letters etc

Take a ride to my old neighbourhood – time lapse of traffic (reverse)

I just wanna go back, sing, "hit me, baby, one more time" – examples of failing lessons and essays

Wanna go back, wanna go – mid shot

Yeah, I just wanna go back – Beth in classroom

Nike Airs, all that – beth lip sync

CD, old Mercedes - Drive 'round listening to Shady like, oh –

Never under pressure, oh – cut to Beth, in a different room with books and paper

Those days it was so much better, oh – revising (cut away)

Feelin' cool in my youth, relaxin' – back to Beth in the room (lip sync)

No money, no problem –

It was easy back then – yawn

Ooh, wish that we could go back in time, uh – sing to each other,

Got memories – photos of Beth in school

Ooh, maybe we can do it tonight – lip sync and cut to a travel scene that fits to the beat of the song

Tonight's the night – cont.

I just wanna go back, back to 1999 – transition, beth in the woods (remembering freedom)

Take a ride to my old neighbourhood – lip sync in classroom with intertextual reference

I just wanna go back, sing, "hit me, baby, one more time"- slow mo run backwards

Wanna go back, wanna go – Beth lip sync

Yeah, I remember back home – Transition. Josh lip sync in bedroom with laptop

Best friends, all night, no phone

No cares, I was dumb and so young

My room singing Michael Jackson (hee, hee) – Beth pop up

Never under pressure, oh, those days it was so much better – Josh lip sync

Feelin' cool in my youth – spinning in the woods, going back in time.

I'm askin', "Does anyone remember how we did it back then?" –

Ooh, wish that we could go back in time, uh – Beth Lip sync

Got memories – Switch to Josh lip sync in bedroom

Ooh, maybe we can do it tonight

Tonight's the night

Ah, yeah – Transition to chorus

I just wanna go back, back to 1999 – Beth Lip Sync

Take a ride to my old neighbourhood – outside shot

I just wanna go back, sing, "hit me, baby, one more time" – pan of lake

Wanna go back, wanna go – reverse shot of Beth and Josh walking through the woods they used to go to

Back to where we came from, playin' air guitar on the roof – dancing to match the lyrics

In the kitchen, up on the table – outside shot

Like we had a beautiful view – mimic a photo frame then throw it away into a transition to the next scene.

I wanna go – Beth dancing in different scenes

I just wanna go back, back to 1999

Ah yeah

Back to 1999 – splash to match the beat in the lake

I know those days are over but a boy can fantasize – old scene, make it look like it is filmed on an old camera and use overlays. Josh Lip Sync

'Bout JTT on MTV and when I close my eyes – bedroom, use strobe lighting on the tv and have text to match the parts of this line

And I'm right there, right there – cut back to old footage and overlay shot

And he's right there, right there

And we're right there, right there

Ah, ah, ah, I wanna go back – beth throws leaving in the woods that match the beat drop

I just wanna go back, back to 1999 – slow motion of beth in the woods

Take a ride to my old neighbourhood –

I just wanna go back, sing, "hit me baby, one more time" – Blair Witch reference, camera overlay, film at night

Wanna go back, wanna go – Josh Lip Sync

Back to where we came from (came from) – Woodland Scenes

Playin' air guitar on the roof

In the kitchen, up on the table –

Like we had a beautiful view

I just wanna go back, go back – reading chamber of secrets

Back to 1999 – Josh on tree that moves to the beat

Go back, yeah, yeah

I just wanna go back, yeah back to 1999 – Beth running with the camera doing a free hand 180 degree spin. 1999 pops up to match the parts that it is said

Yeah, take me back to '99 – Josh puts head phones on like in the retro days. Low pass to make the effect of the noise coming from the headphones.