The shoot - lighting (and reasoning behind some shots)

As the video is set in a house at night, we had the curtains closed with the main lights on. This had multiple effects; one being the setting looked more natural for the characters, and the lighting was easier to control.

Even through we kept the lighting natural, we used some techniques to make some shots more interesting. For example, in the narrative section, the lighting got progressively more and more dark. This was done by starting off with the main light on, then just lamps in the room, and finally just the glow of the TV. This was done to show the passing of time and to be a metaphor for the worsening situation for the characters and the changing from a party atmosphere to one more serious.

A screen shot of a scene early in the video...

...and another from near the end. Although it is hard to tell (with the screenshot being taken with a cameraphone off of the Mac's screen), the latter is noticeably darker. 

The shots also reflect this shift in tone in the video, in both the performance and narrative aspects. The narrative section started with more high angle and longer shots that gradually turned to mid/close ups and low angle shots as the video wore on. This highlights the dwindling numbers of the characters and introduces almost a sense of claustrophobia to the audience.

The more common low angle shots are reflected in the performance aspect, but the lighting is constant to show the band are fearless. Their fate is hinted at during the chorus shots of the feet of the corpses framing the shot as the darkness of their shoes slowly fill in the frame. This ends with Ben and Jamie's characters legs filling the rest of the frame in the last scene.

The chorus after Tyler's character dies

And the final shot in the house where Ben and Jamie step in front of the camera. There is a shot preceding this where Tyler's and Amy's legs frame the shot, but I don't have a picture available of that. 

The only shot that we had to utilise the lighting in a more complicated way was the "we did warn you not to hear" scene. The homage to Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody poster was the only piece of intertextuality we included in the video. We did this to emulate the seriousness and emotion of the line in the song whilst staying upbeat with the reference. We emulate the framing of the shot, a three shot from a slightly low angle with the tallest person in the middle, all looking down their nose at the camera slightly. As for the lighting, I had to hold a torch pointing up from the floor to provide the underside lighting we needed.