Costume

The costume that the characters wear in the video is important, as it is one of the few ways that you can characterise people within a music video. As there are no scripts of dialogue in a music video, it can be difficult to understand what a character is like if not portrayed correctly. This is why dress is very important in a narrative focused music video like ours, as instead of trying to show off what the artist is like, we are trying to bring across a story.

With the main character, we are trying to show that he is from the areas shown in our video, so the costume we had in mind include dark/dull clothing. We have decided that this character should wear a dark coat and jeans, as we think this will create the sort of look that we want that character to have.

For the other character, we wanted him to have a sort of insane criminal sort of dress, and from watching antagonists from various thrillers we found that suit were often used for these sort of characters in a modern setting. The two characters that are the most obvious are the Joker from Th Dark Knight and Moriarti from the BBC's Sherlock series. We aren't aiming to make our character look like the joker, but the joker does wear a suit, and we think it would be a good idea if this character wor a suit in our video.