Costume & Makeup Research

For our music video, we only need two actors, a male and female.

We have decided that for our girl actress, she is going to be wearing different types of clothing in each location; at home and the theatre.

At home, we thought that it would be better if she wore effortless clothing like leggings along with a jumper, just to show that she’s comfortable in her own home. Her makeup would be subtle with her hair tied back, however throughout the music video we were thinking to make her look more and more tired and maybe slightly sickly to show the relationships effect on her. As time goes on, she as a person, is suffering.

It was pointed out to us, to make sure that we have a lot of different outfits. Therefore, we are going to have a variety of clothing in the flashbacks to show that the relationship has been long term and declining over time.

The male will be dressed normally in casual clothing, perhaps in a white t-shirt with black jeans and maybe a silver chain. We are trying to show him as normal and not the conventional alcoholic who always looks dishevelled and unkept. We want to portray him as normal as possible as it adds to the relationships dynamic. For example, looking at them as a couple, people will think they are both happy in this relationship as it doesn’t look like there is a problem, but the audience knows after seeing what happens behind closed doors that this is not the case.

In the theatre, we have decided that she will have a lot more makeup, looking healthy and her best self, to show her post breakup.