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1. One Step Closer
Joe came up w/ the concept for the video.
The video was *originally* supposed to include live shots of the band with fans in concert (supposedly). Obviously this didn't happen.
The video was shot in Los Angeles 63ft under ground in an abandoned LA subway tunnel that is adjacent to an abandoned V.A. hospital.
Gregory Dark was the director and interestingly enough, he used to be a porn director.
2. Crawling
Joe is the official LP video guy :)
He helped come up with ideas/concepts for this video.
Director for the video:
Colin Strause, from Pixel-Envy.
Originally Lp wanted to make the video more hardcore and evil but the record company wanted it toned down a bit so they came up with something to make both the band and company happy. Originally the video was supposed to have an unhappy ending but they compromised and made a happy ending instead.
The storyline for the video is basically about a girl who is being abused by her father. Linkin Park wanted something that their fans could relate to so they came up with this storyline.
3. Papercut
Directed by Nathan Cox and co-directed by Joe.
This video was originally made for the UK and not shown in the US. Lp did premiere it in the US on the Family Values special however. It was never in regular rotation, though.
4. In the End
The video was co-directed by NathanCox and Joe.
The video was filmed on a sound stage in L.A.
The "hieroglyphics" on the set are really the mason alphabet. On the right side top to bottom they read: PH, MASK, LINKIN, PARK, DEADSY, HANNAH, MRHAHN, LINKIN, MP. On the left side, top to bottom they read: NKC, KARMA, DEADSY, LINKIN, PARK, LURCHEN, MINUTM, HANNAH, LP. (thanks Katie)
Patrick Tatopoulous designed the sets (Independence Day), check www.imdb.com. Joe and Nathan were both "big fans of 'Dark City". Patrick called Joe and Nathan the day he received a copy of "In the End" and their treatment and said he happened to have some time to work on their video.
Nathan said: "He showed up in our office with his portfolios of artwork from movies that we love. We were like kids in a candy store. We were glowing."
Within hours, Tatopoulos had the idea to design the building in the shape of woman and to have the band perform on the crown (mtv.com).
The set included stairways w/ ledges. Brad's foot was injured during the filming, when Nathan asked him to jump off one. He jumped and landed badly on his foot.
From mtv.com: The whale in the video which first appears behind Mike in the opening verse was added digitally to create an even more surreal environment, according to Cox.
Joe's comments on the whale: "It's not like I pulled it out of my ass, it made sense to me."
"It's more of an elemental thing. Where when you think of a whale you associate it with water, but it's a contrast to the environment, 'cause there's no water in the environment. So it was basically a way to visually connect the ground to the sky to the tower, where we were."
More comments on the video in general by Joe: "When you hear the song, there's basically a cycle going on in the song. And that's what is going on in the video, there's a life cycle taking place from the environment that's desolate, it's all dry, and basically goes from that point of there being nothing to the end, where a whole evolution takes place."
Cox: "The song could be taken in a negative context, this dismal kind of thing, 'I tried so hard and got so far/ But in the end it doesn't even matter.' It had this positive tone, but the words were really negative. So the world that they start in is dismal, desert, emptiness, and it starts to rain and then the world becomes a beautiful place."
For the storm scene, Cox installed rain piping over the set, where they had already been filming for several hours. "They didn't realize they were going to be up there for another six hours, with the wind blowing on them," Cox said. "Actually, we laughed through the whole process. They weren't too pissed off."
To keep the mood on the set light, Cox invited a friend of his who is in a bluegrass band to come to the sound stage in Los Angeles. "We brought him and a guy playing banjo and they did a couple of Linkin Park songs," the director said, giggling.
In conceptualizing the intense visuals of the video, Hahn found inspiration in the paintings of Alphonse Mucha, who helped shaped the aesthetics of French Art Nouveau in the late 1800s and early 1900s and often painted figures encased in twining stems.
Joe: "We were successful enough that we didn't have to do a performance video with skateboard kids running around, even though that's what the label wanted. It was kind of a battle to get this video made." Nathan said it took nearly three months to convince Warner Bros. to let them do the In the End video the way they wanted.
Nathan: "Originally, the label thought it was a too light. They wanted me to give it some teeth. So I created the rain scenario and the cycle of life that would go ugly for a while and these thorns that would come out of the ground and the label eventually bought it and dug what we were doing."
Joe: "No one really understood 'cause it's not something that was done before. Now there's a lot of videos out there that look like it 'cause there's a tendency with music in general to copy things that are successful."
5. Points of Authority
Credit is given to Nathan as the director.
This is a live-footage video that was not originally intended for viewing on tv music channels. It was mainly a special bonus for the dvd and other imports. BUT it is shown on various music channels in Europe, Canada, Asia, etc now anyway.
6. Pts.Of.Athrty
Another video directed by Mr. Hahn, completely done in animation.
7. Somewhere I Belong
First video from Meteora album.
Directed by Mr. Hahn
Making of SIB featured on MTV.
8. Faint
2nd video/single off Meteora.
Directed by Joe & Mark Romanek.
Original Treatment for Faint, from Markromanek.com:
the band performs the song in dark, dramatically lit concert venue. two-thirds of the performance is filmed from behind the band.
we only see their backs -- backs of heads, hands, torso, asses, feet. all the emotion is conveyed through the body language. we may catch slight glimpses of oblique profiles. but, they are just that -- only glimpses. in the background of all these shots we see silhouettes of fans, creating waves of excited movement. we are teased for over two minutes with beautifully composed and dramatically back-lit images of the band filmed from behind.
during the bridge, chester rushes the front row and sings screaming into the face of a girl in the front row (still filmed from behind.) hear me out now!
then, he turns to walk back to the platform, and as mike sings-speaks the very quiet lines (at the end of the bridge) we finally see his face. i cant feel the way i did before
then, when the song kicks in for the climax, we cut to the band and finally see them perform from the front -- amazing shots of brad, chester, joe, mike, phoenix, and rob performing the song passionately.
we also reveal a dark, strikingly designed and stylized set behind them. (not one so interesting as to distract from the band themselves.)
the tension and suspense engendered by not revealing the band for so long will be riveting. when we finally do, the effect will be thrilling.
this simple concept will resonate with the themes of frustration and desire-for-acknowledgment that the song expresses so powerfully.
4.15.03
Video Credits:
Producer - line postmyr
Director of photography - Jeff Cutter/Rolf Kestermann
Production designer - Laura Fox
Editor - Robert Duffy
Wardrobe stylist - Franck Chevalier
18+ old LPU fans are in the video as extras.
A Faint Trading card contest was launched alongside the video. 6 Trading cards were released on Lpfaint.com (pushmeaway.com was one of the official hosts as well as a few other fansites that were specifically picked by Mike). Real trading cards were also given to the street team to promote the contest.
9. Numb
3rd video/single off Meteora.
10. From The Inside
This was just released in Europe.
It's the band performing in the middle of a riot.
A little boy starts screaming with Chester near the end
Joe Hahn directed
It was filmed in Prague |
