Georgia Phillips A2 Media: October 2017

Saturday, 21 October 2017

Costume

As the narrative of the music video can relate to a realistic story-line, we have decided to dress the characters in simple/casual clothing as we want the viewer to feel immersed in the scene with them. We almost want the viewer/audience to feel like a fly on a wall, considering the narrative as we want them to feel as if they’re spying on the characters and viewing a section of their lives as they happen.

For our male character, the decision has been made on a casual look of a plain T-Shirt and jeans. This adheres to the indie genre of music videos as the band The 1975 dress in this way, keeping an ‘effortless’ look and feel to their style of appearance.

For the female character there will be two defining looks/styling’s and the same person will be playing both characters, which makes the audience feel like the singer has been through the experience that the girl in the narrative is going through. This is because the female is both the singer and girl featuring in the narrative. As she is, mainly the singer we want her to stand out from the narrative and have more of a defining appearance, so that when she is on screen she is seen set aside from the narrative. When appearing on the screen as the singer, she will be featured wearing a large coat, plain long sleeved top, and jeans.

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In the narrative, the female will be wearing a style in clothing that is more ‘effortless’ and realistic to see in a ‘real-life’ instance. There will be at times where she is wearing something similar to the male role, and when she’s in her room crying she will be wearing more ‘bed’ish clothing.

Props

The Love Letters

The props in our music video are going to be both simplistic and complex. The simplistic props will be found familiar settings, such as the location of the house. The reason for this is because we want the viewer to feel engaged and have a sense of realisation as if they’re in the scene with the characters, feeling exactly what the actors/actress’ are experiencing.

The more complex props will be found in the room where the girl/singer is seen crying and tearing up old love notes from her abusive partner. The love notes will be hand written and presented on screen in slow-motion as she tears them apart. The reason for the letters being handwritten is because we want the audience to feel as if the other partner really loved her, enough to write them instead of typing them on a phone and sending them to her by text. Writing the letters, we felt was more romantic and suggestive that he loves the girl/singer as they would’ve taken time to write and think of. It also gives the audience a sense of realism, creating the enigma of how would they feel if they received these letters from a loved one/partner? How would they react to seeing them after they were abused by their partner? Would they be upset, angry, or even scared? These are all questions that remain as enigmas throughout the music video as we want the audience to think for themselves and perceive the video in their own way instead of us giving them all of the information.