Costume Planning

Collage created on picmonkey

Collage created on picmonkey

Choosing the costumes for our music video is essential; Ellie and I both knew that it had to fit well with our chosen genre indie. This took a lot of research, and we found that usually indie people are  associated with simple and vintage clothing, during our research, we found that indie people wear striped clothing, with clashing colours. Also, they like to wear beanie hats for example, Ellie Goulding is part of the indie pop genre, we were inspired by Ellie Goulding because of her fashion choices, however, we were mainly inspired through social networking sites like Tumblr and searching through the “indie” tag to see what those people wear.  In our music video we want our artist to have the same costume throughout, since we want to keep it consistent, also the clothing we get her to wear is important because it will help promote the song and the artist. People may also feel inspired by her and therefore want to dress the same.   In the images below, they show what our artist is going to wear. We decided that we should have a striped jumper since that’s what indie people are known for wearing thus meaning it fits with the genre. The stripy jumper adds colour and effect to the video, but doesn’t distract the audience away from the actual meaning of the song either. This works well, than just a plain shirt/jumper since not only doesn’t it fit well but it looks more grown up. The black leggings are inspired by Ellie Goudling since she is seen wearing those a lot in her music videos, in addition, they were simple for us and easy to get since we were on a low budget.  Finally, the shoes that our artist is wearing are called “Creepers” or “Platform shoes” people who wear these shoes have an alternative fashion which fits well with our chosen genre indie because “indie” is thought to mean individuality, so the fact that our artist is wearing something aslternative reinforces the fact that the indie genre is different and that our chosen costume choices is not what a lot of normal mainstream people would wear. This will intrigue and attract our audience.

A picture of our main character in our music video

The chosen outfit