The final outcome of the make up and costumes are shown in the picture below. The theme of the costumes yet again follow a black and white theme as when we did our questionnaire some first thoughts of the people were dark, black, depressing, sad and we believe these outfits convey the mood of the song and therefore relevant. Adding to this, a lot of our inspiration came from the band "Hurts" who follow a sort of 1902's/30's theme which involves a lot of lace clothing that is fairly formal and dressy, therefore our outfits evolved from this theme with the lace leotards and small, lace, black hats which yet again emulate a sad and emotional theme.
For the male costume we decided to go with a simple black and white suit, this stereotypically represents a strong masculinity which is the ideal look we were going for. In particular we chose an elder man because the main singer in "Snow Patrol" was age 29 therefore if an actor our age was mining it would not have looked right, therefore we chose Ben Richards who was 28 years. Adding to this, he suited the position of being an attractive and appealing model to the female audience, just as the main singer in "Snow Patrol" is, we decided to follow this convention as it attracts the more female audience to our music video. It can also be linked to the reverse male gaze theory where a man is seen a somewhat sex object that is appealing to the public eye and used to endorse the product.
We went shopping to Primark as we were on a tight budget being students to find the most effective ideas for costumes as we could. We tried several different head pieces, tights, shoes and tops to see what would fit best with our final theme idea following the conventions of the inspiration from both Black Swan and Hurts music videos.
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