| DON'T STAY- Music Video Treatment |
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Its three am and I'm talking to Brad, trying to concentrate on something but at least his words are keeping me up hah. That and the caffine. So I have been writing this music video treatment for the song Don't Stay.
I have been up most of the night chugging away at pots of coffee and talking to myself which is strange that no one else has noticed except for Brad, but I am finally getting this finished after long hours of thinking, pondering, and contemplating. Ladies and gentlemen, the video treatment for the song Don't Stay
Scene 1:
The scene opens with a fade into the picture. A dark haired woman, lets call her, Jen, is being escorted to a Police vehicle by two Officers. A few feet away from her, there are Medics placing a body into an ambulance on a stretcher. Jen looks up at a building as Mike, Chester, Brad, Phoenix, Rob, and Joe look down at her, standing completely still. The intro to the song starts as the scene fades out and cuts to scene 2.
Scene 2:
Sometimes I
Need to remember just to breathe
Sometimes I
Need you to stay away from me
Sometimes I'm
In disbelief I didn't know
Somehow I
Need you to go
During this scene as soon as the vocals kick in, there is a fade in. Jen is sitting on the couch, watching the television with her six year old daughter, as her husband is getting plastered in the kitchen, drinking down a bottle of Jack Daniels. A minute later, he comes storming out of the kitchen and starts screaming at Jen for apparently doing nothing. Calling her every name in the book, he grabs her by the arm and slaps her across the face as their daughter watches in complete terror. The camera does a quick close up on the daughter, panning in ever so close on her eyes and in the reflection you can see in like through a looking glass, looking in on Chester as he gives a glance of hatred towards the camera, glaring up at it before there is a flash of light, flashing into the next scene which is of the band performing.
Scene 3:
Don't stay
Forget our memories
Forget our possibilities
What you were changing me into
[Just give me myself back and]
Don't stay
Forget our memories
Forget our possibilities
Take all your faithlessness with you
[Just give me myself back and]
Don't stay
The scene has just changed to what looks like what everyone was looking in on from the daughter's eyes. A darkened forest with tree's that hang down low only to show the dead branches and words like "Hope" and "trust" etched into the bark of the tree's. The colors in this scene are dark and morose, describing how the daughter feels when she see's her parents fighting and arguing. The band plays in this scene. Stage right Joe Hahn is situated with his turntables and a bass toting Phoenix stands diagonal from him. Rob Bourdon has his drumset in a slanted kind of manner center staged in this scene. On the other side of Bourdon is Brad Delson. Up front is an angered Mike Shinoda and Chester Bennington. The band plays on as words clouds form in the sky and a loud clap of thunder streams acrossed it. The camera flips angles and you see the little girl standing infront of her mirror and you see the band inside of it instead of her own reflection. Outside the room her parents are arguing and she walks over to the door to see her father hit her mother.
Scene 4:
Sometimes I
Feel like I trusted you too well
Sometimes I
Just feel like screaming at myself
Sometimes I'm
In disbelief I didn't know
Somehow I
Need to be alone
In this scene, Jen is staying at a friend's house. You see her friend, we'll call her, Amy, answering the door to see Jen's husband standing there. Meanwhile, Jen is in the other room tucking her daughter into bed. There are captions in this scene describing what is going on. Amy says "Just go" and Jen's husband says "I'm here to see my wife now where the hell is she?!" and pushes open the door all the way as Jen runs out of the room and see's what's going on. She yells at her husband and he walks over to her and hits her repeatedly as she tries to struggle. "its no use, don't fight." Her husband says as he reaches down and pulls a gun out of his pants pocket. Amy flee's into the kitchen and grabs the phone, dialing up 911. The daughter is sitting up in her bed with her blankets pulled up around her and she's holding a stuffed bear. She looks to the right of her and see's Mike in the reflection of the mirror with a hand pressed up against the glass with a worried expression on his face. The little girl gets up and walks over to the mirror then stops when she hears a gunshot ring out. She drops the stuffed bear as the reflection of Mike fades away.
Scene 5:
Don't stay
Forget our memories
Forget our possibilities
What you were changing me into
[Just give me myself back and]
Don't stay
Forget our memories
Forget our possibilities
Take all your faithlessness with you
[Just give me myself back and]
Don't stay
This is another scene of the band. Things around the band slowly begin to decay. A rotting limb from a tree falls and almost lands on Rob but he moves just in time and everything slowly begins to die and become even more morose and desolate. The band soon find themselves throwing down their instruments and make a run for it, looking like they are trying to dodge their own deaths. Somewhere a long the way, they all split up not intentionally but because they got mysteriously lost in this wasteland. The camera splits into six sections, viewing on every Linkin Parker as they try to make their getaway from their own demise. The camera flips off from the split screen then does a arial close up of Chester Bennington running through the forest as the tree's come crumbling down behind him. He keeps running and running for what looks as if forever to him because he is out of breath. He runs and then doesn't look where he is going and slips off the edge of a cliff, almost greeting his death with open arms but Mike Shinoda looks down at him and grabs his hand just in time, pulling him back up and the scene fades out.
Scene 6:
I don't need you anymore
I don't want to be ignored
I don't need one more day
Of you wasting me away
In this scene, Jen is in a car with her husband and their daughter is in the back. It is a continuation of scene four. The daughter stares out the window as the rain falls down and her reflection fades and is replaced with the reflection of Joe Hahn and Brad Delson looking in on her. It is raining outside and out of nowhere, the right rear tire blows out and sends the car skidding across a deserted highway, doing a one eighty then ending up flipping over and into a ditch. Jen opens her eyes and blinks as she notices that the car is smoking and it starts to catch on fire. She tries to open her car door but its stuck. She tries frantically to get out and finally does only to realize that the car is now almost covered in flames. She struggles to open the back passanger door to get her daughter out, screaming at the top of her lungs. She manages to somehow get the door open as her husband wakes up enraged. The camera zooms in on what is happening on the other side of the highway. There is a large fence and Mike, Chester, Rob, Phoenix, Brad, and Joe are running towards it as everything behind them is decaying. Thus bringing the little girl's own world in her own mind into reality.
Scene 7:
I don't need you anymore
I don't want to be ignored
I don't need one more day
Of you wasting me away
With no apologies
Still a part of scene six, the Father gets out of the car and Jen is running down the side of the highway with her daughter. She looks behind her and see's her husband getting closer then loses her footing and her and her daughter end up falling down the side of a bank (hill or whichever you prefer to call it). As soon as they reach the bottom, Jen lays there for a moment, body still. She opens her eyes to see her daughter tugging at her shirt sleeve. Jen is badly hurt and there is noway that she could outrun her husband now. "Run, run and never look back" she says to her daughter as the captions flicker acrossed the screen. Her daughter looks down at her in question and looks over at the top of the bank/hill to see her Father running/stumbling down it. The daughter does as she's told and takes off running. She runs down the street and finally spots someone, a random person, and asks for help. She knows she's not supposed to talk to strangers but its an emergency.
Scene 8:
Don't stay
Forget our memories
Forget our possibilities
What you were changing me into
[Just give me myself back and]
Don't stay
Jen pulls herself up onto her feet as her husband almost is all the way down the bank. She gets up and starts running for dear life. She runs past a few buildings that are all locked and finally finds one whose door is not locked and runs inside. Its an apartment building, one of those highrises. But every door she goes to, no one will answer. When someone does answer, they tell her to go away. Meanwhile the band is playing ontop of the building and it is still raining outside. She runs to a nearby elevator and right as her husband comes running towards her, the elevator door shuts with her inside the elevator. She gets out of the elavtor only to find her husband walking out of the elevator beside that one. She looks at him in terror and makes a mad dash for a door that is marked "Roof" and runs out onto the rooftop. The rain is pouring down and the band is playing. The little girl is standing down infront of the building as cop cars come zooming towards the scene and she's standing there with the person that she had flagged down earlier for help. On the top of the building, Jen's husband grabs her by the neck and starts to strangle her. Using her fingernails she digs at his right arm and breaks away only to fall onto the pavement of the roof. He kicks her in the stomach repeatedly and she sputters out blood. With every bit of strength in her, she grabs ahold of his right leg and sends him falling off of the roof, plumetting to his grizzly death as a few police make their way to the roof and escort her down.
Scene 9:
Forget our memories
Forget our possibilities
Take all your faithlessness with you
[Just give me myself back and]
Don't stay
Don't stay
Don't stay
The song ends as does the video. The video ending with the shot that began it viewing the band, the police cars, the ambulance, everything, and before the music cuts out there is a hotline for battered and abused women and children to call incase of emergencies.
And that's a wrap. I'm sure that we will have to cut a lot of shit out but yes that is what I thought up and that is why I have been up drinking coffee for the past few hours. I wanted to make a concept video that was not only stylish but original and of course had a few weird things here and there. Hope you guys enjoy and hopefully this will make the next music vid for our next single.
This entry is public because I want everyone to see the original concept for this video before we make it (hopefully) and Mtv butchers it. You heard it here folks, the original concept and treatment for the video DON'T STAY.
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[31 Aug 2003|02:04pm] |
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I'm updating again because of this. I logged into my email inbox a little while ago and there were a ton of emails like this in it
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Subject: about the numb-video
From: "rhyminfrog" <frogzrinsane@yahoo.com> | This is spam | Add to Address Book
This is a message from rhyminfrog at Official Linkin Park Message Board
( http://forums.linkinpark.com/index.php ). The Official Linkin Park
Message Board owners cannot accept any responsibility for the contents of
the email.
To email rhyminfrog, you can use this online form:
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OR, by email:
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This is the message:
Hey, Mr.Hahn
I love the numb-video
It's exactly what I made through as I was fifteen years old...
I even tried to kill myself
when I see the video it is a feeling like...
It is so hard and the music to it and the scene that looks like Rob was
near to crying... It is so hard
I love it
keep on like that :)
your admirer - lover - fan - whatever *LOL*
Cindy
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that is disturbing. I have no lovers!!!! Stop it!!!!
[I AM NOT THE REAL MR.HAHN HOW THE FUCK DID THIS PERSON GET MY EMAIL!! IS THIS SOME KIND OF FUCKING JOKE??? I AM BEING STALKED. I think I need to hire myself a bodyguard now. I REPEAT I AM NOT THE REAL MR.HAHN NO MATTER WHAT THE HELL YOU THINK. IF YOU THINK I AM REAL YOU ARE ON SOME SERIOUS CRACK. I AM TYPING THIS IN CAPS SO YOU WILL COMPREHEND. I AM A FAN AND THIS IS A GAME. STOP SENDING ME EMAILS FOR THE LOVE OF FUCK! Okay that is all.]
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| would the REAL chester please stand up? |
[29 Aug 2003|06:38am] |
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There are too many of you little shits running around here. Would the real Chester please stand up before the Hahn gets angry? You don't want to make the Hahn angry, trust me on this. The Hahn is not nice when he is angry. Did I just wake up at six in the morning just to post this shit entry? Excuse me if I begin to ramble on and sound like a nu-metal idiot with a hangover. Oh wait, I am. Is it my turn to be the singer yet or do I have to keep screwing up prescious vinyl records. I want to be the singer. Why am I even making the effort to update this? Oh, because Chester will hunt me down and stab me with sporks if I don't.
Mr.Hahn is still very much here and still not gay. Just because I don't take any dates with me to award shows does not mean I am gay. How dare you little shits even concieve that thought because I am really seriously flamingly gay I am just hiding in the closet as we speak *hand flip!* Am I in that Must Be Pop thing yet and if so why not? I'm Nu-Metal, I'm in a Nu-Metal band, WORSHIP THE HAHN before Remy decides to come out and play.
*raises an eyebrow and twitches*
Wanna talk to Remy? I did...Last night...It was...Wonderful...He says hi to EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU!!!!
Hahn: What are you doing, go away!
Remy: Hello, Joe.
Hahn: No, no, you're not real!
Remy: I am real, and you know what you must do? Burn everything. Burn the award ceremoney down, burn it all!!! Hahahahaha!!!!!
Hahn: NO I wanna see Britney/Madonna/Christina kiss!
Remy: Burn them and then steal all of Chester's shoes and burn them too!!! Then burn all of his plaid pants!!!
Hahn: No not the shoes! Maybe the pants because that shit is gross but not the shoes!
Remy: You know what you must do.
Luckily everything went okay and Remy went back to hell where he belongs. Because there is no Remy. Stop it, stop it AHHHHHHHH! I have more personalities than a skitzo on prozac. No wonder why I scare the children so much.
REMY OWNS YOUR SOUL.
What the hell was that?
BURN, BURN EVERYTHING AND WORSHIP THE FROGS
I need to go back to sleep!
BURN CHESTER'S PLAID PANTS! BURN THEM ALL!
No, no, happiness and butterflies. Happiness!
I AM GOD
Yeah right and Chester is Jim Morrison reincarnated!
GO BACK TO SLEEP YOU IDIOT
Okay. :D
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