Costume Research.

For our costume inspiration we looked into different mysterious characters such as ghosts, spirits, and bad / good angels for the main character in our narrative of the music video. We decided as a group, after varied discussion, that the presence of a guardian angel suited and fitted well to our choice of narrative.



This image shows a representation of the guardian angel from our music video. However to fit with the modern genre of our music choice we decided to add a younger look to the angels costume, by using a shorter dress and the enhanced white eyelashes. We still wanted to keep the eerie and mysterious atmosphere to the presence of the angel and felt with use of locations and lighting we did this without the need of a darker more grim costume. We still wanted to ensure the goodness and purity of the angel was displayed we did this through the use being dressed in all white, as white represents purity, innocence and a godlike image.



Here is an image of the Catherine in costume whilst filming in the studio. We searched specifically for wings with feathers as felt they are important to clearly portray the magical and angel from heaven image as at the end of our video we aim to display the angel taking the female character to heaven. The eyelashes although add a modern touch also create a spooky and un-natural purpose.

We wanted our pprotagonist looking very vulnerable we researched a number of costume ideas and we thought that a pajama like costume opened up lots of connotations of venerability and insecurity.This image is taken from Devlin's music video for "Let it go" where themes of domestic abuse are also interpreted. In our video we took some inspiration from this and had her in a pajama like costume as at night this is when your most venerable, we also used white to connotate her innocent nature. We wanted a simple costume to not take the attention off our thought out narrative.

We wanted to use a stereotypical image of a young youth that could be involved with some domestic violence, we looked at some well known television programmes such as hollyoak and we used conventional stereotypical clothing such as ‘snapback’ (hat) and dark clothing to make him look more intimidating.