As we will start our filming in a few weeks we have decided to start seriously thinking about the costumes of the characters. There are 2 characters in the video:
The lead protagonist/ Artist (Me)
Her Ex (who has a small role in the video, played by George)
As there are 2 different Locations, two costumes are required. The first location, where the majority of the video will be shot, is the roof tops. As this part of the video will represent a negative time in the artists life we feel her costume should reflect this alongside the band image and genre. We felt that the clothes I wore when we did some practise filming were effective and so decided to use them for part of the first costume (above, left and below) A leather jacket was effective as it presented the modern element of our band image, also incorporating the genre, which is
Alternative Rock, it also depicts the more gritty element of the video, connotations of a dark leather jacket can adhere to the rougher and darker image we are trying to create. We also wanted to keep the idea of using black leggings as the colour provided further representation of our dark and negative image, whilst the holes and patches can represent how the artists life is fallingapart.
Further more
if you look at the image on the right we feel that the darker colours really fits in with the urban background and setting that we are using in the video.
However, we will not have Ugg boots as part of the costume in the real video, instead we are considering using mini boots, preferably dark brown or black leather, these will firstly fit well with the image we are trying to create (the leather conforming to rock stereotypes) and as we found when filming, it is very difficult to run fast in Uggs and so some proper shoes or boots are required for the running footage to look effective. We decided as a group that we would not spend extra money on the element of the video as we have to make and buy the second costume for the performance location.
