Our target audience is predominantly;  

• Males aged between 14 and 25. 
• They enjoy rock music specifically alternative rock music.
• Have hobbies such as skateboarding, roller skating.
• Like brands such as converse, Nike 6.0, Quicksilver, etc. 
• Music they enjoy might include bands like Green Day, AC/DC, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Linkin Park, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Queens of the Stone Age, My Chemical Romance and Guns ‘n’ Roses.
• Their clothing style would be skinny/slim fit jeans mainly of dark blue or black, t shirts which has; the brands logo, slogan, name, a bands name, logo, album name or has a design/pattern on it, they may also wear a cap or hat, board shorts and skater shoes.

I have sent Linkin Park an email asking for permission, I should hopefully hear back soon.

I couldn't find a "Contact us" link or anything like it on either the Linkin Park website or Warner Brothers Music, So I ended up signing up as a member then emailing Chester Bennington

I have just found a section where it allows you to send a message to "Team LP", on there section of the site it says you can contact them talking about the New Linkin Park website or ask them any questions you may have so I sent them the same message as I did to Chesters

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In our music video, in most of the music video's that we have looked at in this genre, have on average 50% shots of the band and 50% shots of the story to the music video.
I believe that we shouldn't stick to using 50% of the shots of Story and Band, I think that our shots should be more like 20/30% of the shots compared to the story being 70/80%. I think that this would work because our story seems to be longer than our band performance,

In this farewell
There's no blood
There's no alibi
Cause I've drawn regret
From the truth
Of a thousand lies

So let mercy come
And wash away

What I've done
I'll face myself
To cross out what I've become
Erase myself
And let go of what I've done

Put to rest
What you thought of me
While I clean this slate
With the hands
Of uncertainty

So let mercy come
And wash away

What I've done
I'll face myself
To cross out what I've become
Erase myself
And let go of what I've done

For what I've done
I start again
And whatever pain may come
Today this ends
I'm forgiving what I've done

I'll face myself
To cross out what I've become
Erase myself
And let go of what I've done

(Na-na na na)
(Na-na na na)
(Na-na na na)
What I've done
(Na-na na na)

(Na-na na na)
(Na-na na na)
(Na-na na na)
Forgiving what I've done
(Na-na na na)

(Na-na na na)
(Na-na na na)
(Na-na na na)
(Na-na na)

We could have shots of a person doing something they shouldn't have done e.g. steel from a shop ( but they get worse at doing what they have done e.g. steel more etc) then show them starting to feel regret and guilt and then show them start to feel uncomfortable with them selves for what they have done. The then attempt to repair the damage

What I've Done by Linkin Park is the song we are looking at producing a video for, I have had an idea for the video we could make it would be a video which Starts with a shots of a couple in love, then cross cuts to flowers growing, cross cuts back to one of the couple cheating (either man/woman) then arguing, spliting up. We would then cross cut back to the flowers dying and wilting then a shot of the soil where the flowers would have been.
The Flowers could be a representation of the couple's love growing and dying

I can see a problem with the idea though, this would be we would have to get permission of somebody to use their shots as we wouldn't have the time to film our own as it would take ages to get the types of shots which would be necessary for the video.

Although I'm not yet sure which video I will make I have started to develop ideas for music videos I like.
This is for Linkin Park's What I've Done, I like this song and have had a few ideas for it.  I haven't completed my mind map for this music video.

I plan on making a couple more of these mind maps for other songs that I like, I hope to include;

• Learn To Fly - Foo Fighters
• Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Green Day
• In The End and Breaking the Habit - Linkin Park

I like how Linkin Park TV have used these special effects at the beginning and end of their lptv episodes, I think if we incorporated some effects like this into a section of a music video it would look good.

The Catalyst official music video from Linkin Park


The Catalyst from Medal of Honour trailer


Bleed it Out