Costumes

Band Members

Above is a collage we made to take visual inspiration from for our band performance section of our music video. Our band will consist of three members; a drummer, bassist, and lead singer/guitarist. Therefore we have three individual costumes that we need to consider.

• We have taken inspiration from researching into existing 'alternative rock' videos and bands. We looked into Royal Blood themselves and found that their style is very simplistic, often wearing a dark tshirt and jeans, sometimes with a denim jacket. We found this to be a typical convention of the genre as we found similar or identical costumes styles for bands such as Coldplay, OneRepublic and Muse.
• We also found however that each band member has their own individual style - for example the drummer may wear a black tshirt and hat, whereas the guitarist may a tshirt with jeans and a jacket. 
• Therefore when planning/designing the costumes for our band we will have to consider each members individual style and show that they are unique individuals as opposed to one generic band.
• Below are some videos that we have taken inspiration from for our music video.

To design some costumes for our band members we used Polyvore.com to create a collage:

- For the lead singer we decided to have a simple plain dark tshirt, accompanied with a dark leather jacket. We chose this look as the lead singer usually has something different about them compared to the other band members. So we decided that the unique element of their outfit would be the jacket - as none of the other band members are wearing one.

- The majority of the outfit is owned already by the actor we are getting to perform as the lead singer/guitarist. However they do not own a plain black tshirt, so we will either have to borrow one off someone else, or alternatively buy one from a charity shop or Primark.

- For the drummers costume we decided to keep it quite simple as we found that this was very common in most 'alternative' music videos. 

- The actor that we have chosen to be the drummer in our music video already owns similar clothing to this therefore sourcing the costume will not be difficult. 

- For the bassists costume we also kept it relatively simple, following the dark colour scheme we selected a similar dark T-shirt, however this time to be possibly paired with a dark flannel shirt.

- This costume will also be easy to put together as again the actor has similar clothing already, however we may need to go out and buy a dark flannel shirt from a charity shop.

Female Protagonist

We want the females costume to be quite extravagant so that it stands out within the video, yet still follow the dark colour scheme. However we are considering using a 'pop' of colour so that she does stand out in the shots, while still following the theme that we have set out for the band members. Below is a collage that we have created for our female protagonists costume inspiration:

- For the female costume we decided to make her look quite edgy so that she would fit in with the overall theme of our video.

- We chose an overall dark colour scheme for her outfit however we also added a 'pop' of colour with the red lipstick and nails.

- Our actress who is playing the female protagonist owns similar clothing to this therefore we may not have to purchase any of the clothing. However if we do need to buy any of the items we could source them from charity shops/Primark.

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