Costume

Costumes are important to performance based music videos, as it can provide insight into the characters personality and their role in the video, dark clothing commonly means a darker character while brighter gives the impression of a cheerful, bright character. In the pop music genre slightly brighter clothing is commonly used, in contrast to rock in which dark clothing is more common.

In order to illustrate the conflict going on between our two characters, as a group we came up with the idea of dressing our characters according to what the character is portrayed as through the lyrics of the song. Therefore the male character is set to wear black clothes to match his characteristics of being a dull, boring, troublesome individual who is the cause of the failure of the breaking relationship. This leaves the female character to wear something bright and cheery, as she is the one fighting and complaining about the fall down of their relationship. However, to evoke the deepness of the female character's sadness, the female character is also set to wear something dark, when she is alone, which elevates the point that only she can feel this sadness. The reason we chose our female character to wear something bright whilst being with her boyfriend, is to show how the male character is unaware of the female characters loneliness.

In order to keep up with the timeline of today’s image and to associate the mise en scene to the genre of the song, we chose that the female character should wear a bright patterned dress which also refers to the original version of the video.

These images are examples of what we are considering to use as our female character’s costume:

For the piano scenes, she will be wearing dresses like these:

Floral bright dresses like these will be worn when she is with the male character.

These images are examples of what we are considering to use as our male character’s costume: