Props, costumes, make-up and equipment

Costume:


For our costume ideas we have decided to try and keep all of the costumes quite casual for each of the people because in this genre the clothing worn by most people is very casual; for men, chinos, t-shirts, jackets and shoes, and for women they are normally dressed in either casual clothing such as jeans, with a shirt; or sometimes depending what tone they need so sing in (soft and slow) they may be dressed in something a lot smarter like a dress but that isn't always the case. W e are going to try and follow the style of clothing as well as possible so that we are following the conventions of the genre successfully but also perhaps making it clearer and more apparent as to what they genre is.

Jordan drew out 2 ideas of what he thought that each person should look along the lines of.

For the female artist he thought that they should be wearing some skinny jeans, in wither black, pink or purple; however when we spoke about it more as a group we decided that they should be more of a beige colour or white to add a contrast to the male character in the video. He then thought that they should wear a jacket with a t-shirt but which is a fair idea/example which is quite easy to do when making our music video. However, whilst thinking about this again we decided if not the clothing above they should perhaps wear something nicer such as a dress or something.

For the male character he thought they should be quite casually dressed. For example, they should be wearing black trousers, being probably wearing jeans to show they are casually dressed. The shirt they should be wearing would also need to be very casually dressed, meaning they should have either a t-shirt on or a polo perhaps, to show they are from the genre  and they are casually dressed. Also they should be wearing a bit of jewellery to show they are wearing basic conventions of the genre we are doing and also to make it clear what genre we are trying to put across.

Equipment:

 

For the equipment we want to use it will basically be only the essentials to enable us to film our video. This would be the camera, tripod and perhaps the fig-rig. The camera and tripod are obviously essential to film successfully, such as, for all of the shots to record our video, but then also the tripod is definitely needed to hold the shots steady so the camera doesn't shake and makes it look more professional. The fig-rig was another thing that we wanted to use because it enables us to get shots to hold steady with camera movement around the people singing to add some dynamics to our filming.

Props and make-up:

We did not intend on using too many props in our video. If we was to really use any it may be known as the people who are skateboarding behind us when doing our video. We wanted to use the recording studio as well because we want to give an effect that in the video you are seeing the making of it as well, so all of the equipment we hope to be pretending to use in the recording studio may also be seen as a prop that we want to use. Otherwise we have not really intended on using any other props. The make up as well is not much that we have thought about because for the male singer it is not essential to use make up however if the female singer wants/needs to use make up then that is fine but we have not really planned on using too much make-up. We wanted to try and graffiti the album name on the background of the skate park at Southbank ot make it clear what the album title is when we design the CD cover but also because it adds an individual effect to our video rather than having random graffiti meaning nothing relevant to what we are doing in our video.