Final Male costume ideas

Final Female Costume Ideas

My Talent and Production crew

For my music video I needed to look for people who would fit the role of the 'Indie' look. I looked for people who would be comfortable in front of a camera, and if anything had experience with media before.

Talent: 

The female that I have chosen to be my female lead is: Amelia Rothwell
Amelia is a photography, Art and English student of Wyke College. She is confident in front of a camera which is perfect, and is helpful throughout filming and can help me with lights during scenes that she does not appear in. 


The Male that I have chosen to be my male lead protagonist is: Jack Bell
Jack is a media, English and Sociology student of Wyke College. He is confident due to appearing in his own music video this year, so seeing him behind a camera is what initially made me approach him with an email, inviting him to play the lead for my music video. 


The second male which appears in my music video which is the antagonistic guy, that the female lead is sleeping with. I have chosen Connor Carter to play him. Connor is a Fim Studies, Media Studies, and English Student of Wyke College. This shows and tells me that Connor is very confident of himself, via doing both film and media studies, and to be would play the perfect antagonistic. 

Crew:

My make-up artist is Zoe Rothwell I've known her for awhile now, and I like the style that she uses on a daily basis. She uses very little make-up but makes herself look pretty and outlines her eyes which stand out. This is good, as it means that my lead female's eyes would stand out on camera and would give me a good effect. I approached her, and asked her if she could then transfer this make-up technique to her Big Sister (Amelia Rothwell) and for some scenes, create a more 'promiscuous' style with my Talent.

Casting

When it came to trying to find my Talent for my music video I needed to look for people who would fit the role of the 'Indie' look. I did not want to broadcast my need for a Talent as my music video casting would be purely on looks, and this could raise issues within the public. I looked for people who would be comfortable in front of a camera, and if anything had experience with media before. This then led me to look at people who are in either the arts department or the media department a lot, who would suit this role.
When I found two people, I sent them both emails. These emails are shown below:

Sending these emails formally meant that the person could decide on their own whether they would be up for the part or not.

There was no confrontation needed, so they could easily turn my offer down. Luckily on my behalf, they both agreed.

Making a Music Video

Initial idea's of Locations.

Bed shot/ Bedroom shot - My house
Stair shot - Amelia's house
Kitchen shot - Amelia's house
Living room shot - Amelia's house
Different Living room shot - Connor's house. or Jack's house
Street Shot - Arcon Drive
Garden Shot - Amelia's House
Stage set - Fruit / College theatre. 

Animatic from my story board

Using iMovie

As I had never used iMovie before I had some issues with saving. As there is physically no save option, and i'm not an avid apple buyer, this posed a problem for me. As the Mac's at our college are fairly new the technicians did not know either. This meant trying to learn about it myself, but as I was being timed and racing against the clock I turned to youtube. It seems other people too have had this problem and there are plenty of videos out there.

I found this tutorial:
 
This tutorial was meant for people at the youtube users college, but it still applies to my college so this way works for me. It shows you where iMovie actually saves the movie itself, but also where final products are saved and can be uploaded onto a USB device, and then uploaded straight to youtube. 

Storyboard

Storyboard - Media A2 from kierajowetta2

Male costume ideas

As my genre is indie, my male lead must be wearing a costume that fits within the genre. These are all clothes that a typical indie male would wear. To make my music video look professional, my lead must fit within my given genre.  
As these images have been taken from the internet, I may not be able to use these costumes exactly, but this is just to give me a good idea on what the indie genre clothing is.
The look the lead male will take for one section of my song is smart, but casual. He will be wearing a shirt, black skinny jeans and have roughly messy hair. This will connotate that he cares about his appearance due to the smart shirt, but also wants to be seen as 'cool' and respectable. 
Another part of my music video he will be wearing messy clothes, so it represents how he is no longer happy, he no longer cares what he looks, and cannot be happy and look good. 
Examples of clothing within this genre are as follows:
Ben Montague: Another Hard Fall

Leather jackets, black boots, black skinny jeans, and a plain white T-shirt is used within this music video. These pieces of clothing are very effective, and suit the artist well. They make him look casual, but also smart, which is typical of this genre. The hair is another thing to pick up on is that, it is very styled, and into a quiff shape, which could also be another convention of this genre.

Arctic Monkeys: Why'd you only call me when you're high?

Like Ben Montague, Alex Turner is also wearing a leather jacket, black boots, and black skinny jeans. Alex however is wearing a plain black t-shirt, In the picture below, the other band members of Arctic Monkeys are wearing similar costume, and are all wearing dark T-shirts. Two t-shirts are plain, so this could also be something I should consider when thinking about connotations of my music video. 

Female Costume ideas

As my genre is indie, my female lead must be wearing a costume that fits within the genre. These are all clothes that a typical indie female would wear. To make my music video look professional my lead must fit within. 

My female lead must look attractive but also promiscuous. As the song is about a guy who loves a girl but previously this girl has slept around a lot. Half way through the song the guy falls in love with the girl more, and the girl in my video will begin to love him back so the idea's i'm given I could change her clothing so she is more loveable and more reliable to the protagonist.

Some examples of female leads in indie music videos are: