R+P Post 25: Costumes, props and make-up

In order to come up with ideas for costumes, props and make-up, we had to first figure out what kind of studio set up we wanted. We decided that we wanted to have different colour set ups, including white, blue and pink. We were inspired by Destiny's Child music video for 'Say My Name' which also uses different colour set ups as seen below.

We then needed to decide which clothes we wanted the male and female in the studio to wear to fit these colour set ups. Below is a section of the list we came up with.

The studio costumes are just items of clothing that match the particular colour set up, e.g. blue dress for the girl and blue jeans for the boy. The narrative costume for the girl is something we thought is outgoing and bold, and the for the boy its just everyday clothing to reflect the normality of life. However, after doing the test shoot we discovered it isn't practical to wear these clothes in the winter as it is too cold and so the costume will consist of jeans instead of a skirt, but will still include a vibrant top.

Below is the outfit in the test shoot that was unpractical

            

Below are the blue and pink outfits to match the set ups in our test shoot

            

After discussing costumes we had to decide what kind of make-up we want the female in the studio to wear as well as the female in the narrative. We felt it would be best to give them both bold, statement eye make-up as the whole video is about being yourself and breaking barriers. We want to create a similar style for the studio and narrative to draw comparisons between the two and really emphasise that the lip sync in the studio tells the story of the narrative. A member of the group, Eleanor, experimented with different eye looks.