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The Music Video
Behind the Scenes Video
The music of Linkin Park is nostalgic for me. I've always admired their unique sound and style. About a month before the tragic death of Chester Bennington, lead singer of Linkin Park, I started working on an arrangement that would combine several of their songs. It wasn't until Chester's death that I felt compelled to finish it as soon as possible as to pay tribute to the music he made.
Songs featured:
"In the End" - Hybrid Theory (2000)
"Numb" - Meteora (2003)
"What I've Done" - Minutes to Midnight (2007)
"The Catalyst" - A Thousand Suns (2010)
"Crawling" - Hybrid Theory (2000)
"New Divide" - released as a single (2009)
This is my favorite arrangement of something that I've worked on. I enjoyed sitting at my keyboard combining melodies, and later notating the music in Finale. (Because of copyright reasons, I am not able to sell or make the sheet music widely available, but if you'd like me to email you a PDF of the arrangement for piano I would be happy to do so. Please send an email to chelseyjoymusic@gmail.com).
Originally I wanted the scenery of the music video to pay tribute to the videos that Linkin Park made for their songs, but that became complicated quickly. I worked on re-creating the blue glass that is found in their "Crawling" video by painting sheets of plastic. I intended to hang them up in a dark room, but the paint job wasn't good enough.
It's a little frustrating when you have a vision of something, but you're not able to accomplish it because of funds or limited resources. In a way that can be good however, because it forces you to be more creative and original.
I had an idea to film in a tunnel, but as I did my searching in the city in which I live, I wasn't able to find very many that weren't active roads. I remembered seeing one go under a road a few months previous, but it also acted as a canal for a small river that runs through a part of town. Of course we decided to shoot in there anyways. :) The water was freezing and after a while it became warm because we couldn't feel our feet anymore. It added so much movement to the shots, it was such a neat place to film.
For this video, I hired Preston Lange from BiteLight Studios to do the filming and editing for me. It was my first time working with Preston and he did such an incredible job. I'm not usually a fan of videos that merely show someone performing, but he was able to capture the playing in such a way that it kept me entertained. He went above and beyond.
