Costumes

The costumes of our performers, particularly the two narrative performers, we have had to give a fair bit of thought to. Both Frank and I agree that this particular aspect of mise-en-scène is key to clearly establishing the roles of our two characters. Those two are a vulnerable and frightened woman, as well as a man who needs to be in control and so feels the need to abuse his partner. The reason clothing can help establish the roles of the characters is that there are certain costumes which are stereotypically associated with their character types.



The sorts of clothing we would like our narrative performers
to wear.



One of the make-up styles we would like our performer to base upon.

The type of woman we would like in our video has, in past productions, been classically shot wearing fairly shabby sorts of clothing. This perhaps connotes the torment that they are feeling in their ‘relationship’. Specifically for ‘our’ woman we would like at least one item of white clothing to be worn, as research shows this shade to be a typical symbol of ‘Innocence’ (The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge. Encyclopedia Americana Corp. 1918. p. 329).

Our man has, in past productions again, also been shot in, well ... just not particularly upmarket clothing. The connotations of this are that the male is quite possibly out of control (of his mind). The clothing of our male we would like to be quite dark as stereotypically, darkness connotes antagonists.

For our singer we would prefer for her to be shot with a variety of different make up styles, however due to time constraints (i.e. getting people together and the amount of time we can spend together) this may not be possible. The reason we would like differing make up styles is that the singer could show off multiple colours of eye liner and so forth, which are typical conventions it seems, of both Nero videos and dubstep videos in general.

The costumes we would like our performers to wear are nothing glitzy or glamorous, or anything really out of the ordinary, so we will simply be asking our actors/actresses to provide their own, which will not be a problem as we told each person when we 'roped them in' that this might be the case.