Planning the costumes

Planning the costumes

 

Here I will be discussing all of the different costumes which will be worn by the characters and why. I will be providing secondary evidence to help me explain what costumes I will be aiming to have for my characters and why. 

 

    The first character, which I will be describing, is the costume of one of the main antagonists. This is the mugger who will be playing the part of stealing the phone from our protagonist. They type of costume which he will be wear will be very stereotypical for the character which he plays. He will be wearing an all-black hoodie, which is slightly baggy this will help to disguise the shape and the identity of the character so that it would be hard for the protagonist to identify the character after that, if he was able to getting away from the protagonist. He will then also have on simple black tracksuit bottoms, which have the elastic at the bottom. Again the main purpose of these would be to help disguise the identity of the antagonist legs, so that he was able to get away then the protagonist would then be slightly unable to indentify the antagonist if he had got caught at a later date. He would also have on a balaclava this will be to disguise the look of the antagonist face so that it would then be hard to identify the look of the character. Then just to add to the colour scheme, which I have decided to use of this character, I will then be adding just simple black trainers this is so that nothing stands out that much.
 

    The reason why I have decided to use the colour black is because it adds to the low key lighting which I have decided to use, as this will help the antagonist to bland into the background more so that he is then harder to see in the light, because he will bland into the background and then just strike out of no where and pounce on the girl. Using the colour black helps for my character to become part of the darkness, and become part of the fear, as he will just come out of nowhere. I think that another reason why I have decided to use the baggy clothing is to show that this character has been corrupt by the darkness and that is why he has decided to mug this girl. Think will be evident because his eyes will be on show, which will show that underneath he is a good person.   

 

For the second character, which will be the protagonist, this is the girl who gets mugged. She will be wearing a dress again this will be just to conform to the conventions of a dance music video as well as the stereotypical of what a girl would wear. This will allow it to make the characters look more obvious, in terms of the conventions and make my character conform to the stereotypes of what girls of a young age wear. So I have decided to put her in a white dress this is for many reasons. One of which being to convey the innocence of the character and make her seem almost like an angle, as she save the antagonist even though he took her phone. The dress which I have planned for the protagonist to wear will be white, and just above the knee, she will also be wearing a cardigan again this will be like a white or cream colour. She will also be wearing just plain pumps, I’m still unsure of the colour of these, but they are mostly likely to be black.

 

     The reason why I have chosen to use white is because it helps me in trying to portray the innocence and that this is a girl who is good. As the colour white can often be linked it with pureness, innocence and being good; almost angle like. I also think that I would also like the protagonist to stand out more, and juxtapose just how different the protagonist and the antagonist are. As the antagonist will blend in with the background and the atmospheres which the narrative and the music will create. Whereas I will want the protagonist to stand out a lot more and as white stands out as lot on black, but usually white tends to be the dominate colour, when it is used, but here I would like to show that the world is so corrupt that black is now the dominate colour as the world is no longer a safe place. This will help me to show that there is only a little good in the world and only a little bit of white and this has been shown here as the protagonist will stand out so much on the black setting. I also think that this will then make the protagonist stand out more and make her more of a target. I think that this will almost be like a way of showing that this girl would be considered a target because she stands out so much, and she doesn’t conform to the negative atmosphere which the setting portrays.

Thus making her stand out more and because she doesn’t blend in with the background and is just another person instead she is making her self-known and is not hiding away from anything. I also think that for the choice of the shoes that they might be black, I think that this would be a good way of portraying that the negativity is spreading through everyone even the good people including the protagonist, I think that this could then show that the negativity is also spreading through her as well, but slowly, I also think that this could show that it is spreading from the bottom upwards, thus is the reason why her shoes are black as they have started with her shoes and then it should slowly creep up wards in to her body.

 

One of the other characters who will also be playing quite a big part in the music video is the tramp, as he helps to portray to the audience that everyone has some good in them, and sometimes that could mean getting someone else to bring that out in them. This is evident when the tramp brings the goodness out in the pedestrian who was walking past him. I also think that this will be a good way of showing that he can also be a protagonist and be someone else’s hero and that you don’t have to have loads of different cloths and lots of money to do so. I the tramp will be wearing old sort of clothing which will be quite stereotypical, this will involve old type of clothing which is too big, dirty, and ripped. I think that this will be a good way of showing that the tramp has had a hard life. I also want to make it look like these are obviously not his clothes and that these are all he can find and that he don’t have time to think about what look good, and that the clothing which he wears is just for practicability and to keep him warm. I would like for out tramp to wear an over sized brown blazer, then just plain black over sized trousers as well. I will then want him to also be wearing plain black shoes, no socks, and a plain black or maybe white shirt, gloves with holes in and a scarf which is really short and old which can just about wrap around his neck. I have planned for all of these items to look rustic, old, torn and dirty this are to try and full fill the tramp look.

 

     The reason why I have chosen to have these items of clothing is because it, I think that when the audience see the tramp one he will instantly look like a tramp but also, I hope that it will be clear that this tramp is wearing office like clothing and is the sort of clothing with people would often wear if they were going to work but of course the only difference here would be that the clothes no longer fit him and also they are all dirty and dark. I think that this will help to show that this was a man who use to be a business man and use the fit that the suit which he is wear but it no longer fits him now because he has been consumed by the darkness, and he had been reduced to living as a tramp on the side of the road. I think that this helps to convey the idea that the man has been reduced to this. I also that the use of the dark colours will help to show that he has been consumed by the reality and the darkness and is starting to become a part of it, it may just be that he has lost a job or something like that but it has reduce him to this. I also think that the use of these colours will help to show that he has almost become part of the darkness, I then think that the use of the brown jacket will then help to show that he has no completed moved over to the darkness and the use of the colour brown will show that there is still some good left inside him as the jacket has not turn black yet. I also think by having the jacket brown helps to show that the darkness moves up and the jacket is one of the clothing garments which cover the heart, thus helping to show that there is some good still left in his heart, and that is the last of his heart to change and show the darkness.

 

Another character which I will be using in my music video is the man who gives the tramp a burger. This is a character who is not is the music video a lot but his presences in the music video is very significant. This character will be wearing navy jeans, just a t-shirt, a black jacket, a pair of trainers, and a watch. All of these items of clothing will be fresh, new clean, and fir the character properly. I think that this will help me in show the different between him and the tramp and show how they both juxtapose with each other. This will help to convey to the audience the difference in the life style which they lead and reality which the both of them live in. I also think that this will show the two extremes of the characters. I think that this will also help to show that there can be one character which is sp fresh and clean and the other which is so dirty and is living rough but they both have one connection. This is that they are both wearing dark colours in some way, showing that some of both of them are wearing dark colours to convey the consumption of the darkness and the change in the people.

    I think by this character wearing these clothing is helps to show that he has money, and wealth to afford these clothing. Hence why when he gives the tramp a burger he doesn’t really think too much of it, so this is something which he would just buy without thinking about it. But he knows that he knows that he knows that by giving this person a burger would make a difference to his life and save him. I think that he then does this because of the colours which he is wearing so the white and the fresh colours like reds, and blues to show that he is still a good person, and that he still has some good will about him.

 

The last set of characters which will be in the music video will be the people in the club I have decided to include them to help me to convey to the dance conventions during the music video. I also found that this fitted in really well with the beat and the pace of the song. I also think that this then helps to convey the second half of the reality of which we live in as this is just one side which I am showing which the narrative side of the reality which we live in. I think that this will give me the opportunity to show the party side of it, and that if everyone helps to save the world then this is the better life which everyone could live where everyone is happy and even though they are out at night they have no reason to be scared for anything and they are having a good time. I also think that there is another way which this can be perceived and this is where this is just another place all together and we are trying to show how different everyone can just have fun and have a laugh. But I also think that there is another way of looking at it, as these are people who are just having fun and not worrying about what is going on outside as they are just having fun while they can almost suggesting before they too get consumed by the darkness.

 

    They will be wearing typical stereotypical clubbing clothes so; I plan to have girls in minimal clothing such as, short dresses way above the knee, tight dresses, shorts, and shinny leggings, short tops, short skirts, heels. While I think that the boys will be wearing smart clothing, such as trousers, shirts, shoes, jewellery. But I think that they could also wear, smart jeans, maybe trainers, and a t-shirt. This is to help them to conform to eh club conventions and show that they are all dressed out to go out and have a good time, because they can afford to. the reason I have put the characters in these clothing is to make I more obvious that they are in a club, and to show that they are all dressed up to go out and have a good time.  

 

This is the costumes which I have chosen to put my characters in. I have discussed why I have decided to put them into these this clothing and my reasoning’s for this and how they will connect with the audience and the effects which it will have in my music video.