Group: Costume

• The first 'scene' of our music video will be an award ceremony. Although the ceremony will be presented as a small and little known one, hence giving reason for the protagonist to be unhappy about winning 'best supporting actress,' we would still want our actors to be dressed in a formal manner.
• So we have decided to have costumes that you would commonly see at a black tie event, such as suits and dresses.
• To make our protagonist stand out, we plan to have her in a green dress to create juxtaposition with the monochrome costumes of the extras in the scene.
• During the bridge of the song, the protagonist is singing on a stage. During these shots, she will be wearing the same dress that she receives the award in from the beginning of the video.
• Other than this, in the rest of the 'meat' shots of the video, our protagonist's costume will be a more casual dress.

 

• We have chosen to have our protagonist in dresses to reflect the glamorous and feminine connotations of the lyrics.
• Our intention is that the effect of these costumes will create the effect of verisimilitude, making the narrative more believable for the audience.
• Having formal and expensive-looking costumes is a genre convention, as music videos often show values of celebrity lifestyle, such as cars, money and- in this case- clothes.