Brief planning of location, costumes, props etc. for our video

Our video for 'Hoobastank' - "Never There" is part concept-based, part performance-based video, possibly in black and white film using a variety of characters and locations.

• Locations : Concept - The concept based part of our video will be set in the streets and rooftops of a town and city location to match certain generic conventions of music videos from bands, such as Lostprophets. The camera will follow the protagonists and antagonists through the streets and areas via a subjective and POV shot, with strong but single light sources. We will generally aim to have most of our film filmed at night.
• Locations : Performance - For the performance-based part of our video, we will use a dark, isolated room that is blacked out to film the whole band performance, whereas the solo performances of the band could be from this dark room, to public toilets shouting in a mirror to rooftops singing over a cityscape image to a riverside in London.
• Costumes - All performers in the video will wear generic clothing, such as jeans and T-shirts, particularly the band during the performance, although the protagonists and the singer during solo performances will be wearing hoodies and possibly hats to reinforce the stereotypical 'hoodie' youth within our video.
• Props - The main prop within the video will be the band instruments. we would like to stick to a four man band; a singer, a guitarist, a bassist and a drummer so the basic props would be a microphone, a guitar, a bass guitar and a drum kit. We will also take advantage of street furniture at our location(s) and the use of strobe and other lighting available to us.
• Colour - The match the generic conventions of this band and similar videos that we have watched, the video will be filmed in black and white, the create a more visual effect, as well as a stronger emphasis on the light source we use.
• Lighting - During the concept parts of our video, we will use street lighting and strong torches to get our desired lighting effect, to strain emphasis on facial expressions and convey moods to the audience. We will aim to use large, simple strobe lighting to highlight the series of band performances.
• Camera shots to include - (Extreme and mid)Close-ups, mid-shots, (mid) long shots, low angle and high angle shots, aerial shots (when possible) rotating images evolving into a montage, POVand Subjective shots etc...