Costume and prop planning

For the costumes we were thinking to dress the character in a skinny suit to represent the rock/Indie that this song was representing. We wanted to stay as far away to the original song video as possible so that we could develop our own ideas and make it adjusted to us. This pos-

sibility for the suit is quite high because of the contrast that the character will have with other places around him. For example, we are setting part of our shot in the countryside, which means that a lot of the surroundings will be green. Therefor the character will be wearing black and white and the contrast for the shot will be great and it will mean that we will not have to colour correct the clip that much.

Another potential idea for the costume would just be baggy clothes that would suit an everyday man. The reason for this is because that it would have a person connection with the audience if the character was wearing everyday clothes and it could put the viewers in the shoes of the character. Although that this might be quite a good effect to portray it means that the costume would be quite boring and would not really stand out of the ordinary which is not the effect that we want. This costume could also keep things down to reality and make the whole video more believable. The reason we would want to do this is because we are making this music video quite abstract.

For a prop I think that it would be suitable to use some sort of instrument. The most likely one that we are going to use is a guitar (acoustic). This is so that we can have to character doing a bit more than just walking around and it will give us a more range of shots that we can add and use. This will also give out character something to do with his hands. The guitar will not be with him in every scene because there are other ideas that I have for him; it’s just something for the musical side of it instead of just the story.

I also think that we should have some sort of symbol in this music video to represent something in specific. I think that this symbol will be a snow globe of a city or place and the character is travelling to get there. I think that this would be a great symbol and it will be a good object for the camera to cut away to now and again as a reminder for the character and for the audience. The reason I want to add this into my piece is because I think that it is important for the character to be trying to get somewhere and he needs some sort of motive in order to progress this journey. It also gives us a lot of different things to film.