Costumes for Music Video

 2-step Costumes

Max 

For my piece I will be focusing on costumes, costumes are a key aspect of a music video as it moulds the way the audience perceives the characters within. There are so many options to choose from to successfully follow the codes and conventions of our Genre and this choice would have been tricky and carefully considered.

My first character is myself. I am a french man in my piece who falls in love with an English girl. My outfit needs to tell the audience exactly that.

I chose to wear a matching Ralph Lauren Half Zip. Ralph Lauren is an American brand, although is highly respected in countries such as France. There is a common stereotype that french people spend a lot of money on clothing, therefore, wearing a Ralph Lauren Half Zip follows that stereotype.

I wore black Jeans to show that I am putting in effort for this special girl I met in London, this is key for the piece in my opinion, the character in my piece needs to look presentable.





Grace

Grace, who is playing the girl in the music video, needed to also look presentable as if she is putting lots of effort into going to see this French Man.

I chose grace to wear a leather jacket. A leather jacket shows her efforts to meet this French Man on the first date. This instantly tells the audience that she feels the same way the man does about her and shows that she might be in love.

I also chose for Grace to wear Jeans, as stated before, it shows the effort she put in to try and impress the French man and further agrees with my point that the audience will instantly know that they are both in love with each other.

My aim is, as soon as the audience lays eyes on these two characters, they will instantly know that they both like each other and they are both in love with each other.



Oscar

The Narrator, who was Oscar, wore our original 2-step merchandise. This showed our audience the fanbase from a different point of view

It would have also made the audience aware of this merchandise, generating revenue for the artist and the music industry.

























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