Costume and Props

Costume and Props

- More screenshots to be added later.

The costume and props used within music videos often relate to the genre and style of the artist or band, as well as the meanings behind the choice of instruments for the track and lyrics. An example of this is in "OK Go - Needing/Getting".

The props in this case, are the musical instruments. This reflects the band's unique take on music and music videos, as there is no other music video similar to theirs. It reflect's the band's creativity and shows that they're something different within the industry as all their music videos have a similar visual style - almost a journey, which the objects/elements interact with to create sound.

However, in our case costume and props play a relativity small part within our music video production.

The protagonist within our music video can be easily seen in crowd shots as the character wears a red jumper - A color which is very bright against the darker mise-en-scenes, such as the market shot which appears cold and bitter. The character from a distance looks like a Big Issue seller. This wasn't intentional, as this was pointed out during the edit by Miss. Barton, who asked myself while viewing a shot of a real seller - is that you? - This was taken into consideration by myself and it really does appear to be me. Taking this in mind, an audience member who watches my group's music video may also think this. Against the dark mise-en-scenes, our character, who appears as a Big Issue seller could now be seen as alone, alienated, and walks alone throughout the streets - much like O'Connors' "Nothing Compares to You" music video, where she is seen walking through the park.

Notes to expand upon:

The black outfit which Brian wears throughout feels very Gothic against the black background in a high black and white contrast.

Example on right: A still which I took with my Cannon 600D, then edited it in the camera to transform it into black and white, I did this as the contrast in colour and brightness was too extreme in colour. It distracted you from the mise-en-scene and singer, Brian.

Note: On my display, the photographs look blurred. If you click on each one, you will view the original  resolution, which is not blurred.

The guitar which Brian brought with him, was also black. Within our edit it too seems as if it's appearing out of nowhere. It's appearing out of the darkness into the mise-en-scene - much like a famous singer, taking the stage light.

Newspaper Collage for Music Video

Newspaper Collage for Music Video - Filmed by Sam

This short video consisting of JGP images taken by Sam has been put together to create an almost animatic-style motion of shorts. Our idea behind this is to demonstrate the main character's motives - his pursuit to find information. At the end of our music video, the character has all the information "pinned" up, onto a wall.

After Sam showed me the footage, I suggest to him to bring in the raw JPG image files for our next editing session, as well as this clip. This way, we can easily edit the pace of the footage as I find the above slightly slow.

I also added that, when he can, he could do some parts of it again but this time, include a few close ups of words circled in red, as well as newspapers overlapping each other. This would then add more verity into this scene and motion of clips.

The red circles highlight important words, such as "job" and "directions" - as well as other sources of information. This links to our song choice of "Information", as the artist Brian told us that his song is about seeking information for an undecided choice. This links in with Andrew Goodwin's music video analysis that the visuals have a relationship with the lyrics.

Intertextual Reference:

(unfinished) Note use of newspaper-like motion, images being displayed within an image/box shape object. Like a wall of living photos and use of red writing at the beginning.