Costumes & Props

Costume

Costumes & Props are essential when representing specific genres & social environments. Different styles of clothing and fashion movements often be associated and sometimes attributed to personality types, economical wealth and regional areas. This is how we are able to stereotype people from certain parts of countries so easily and also able to assume we know things about people who dress in a certain way. For example someone who had bright coloured hair, piercing's and wore boots with dark coloured jeans one would assume that they listened to metal/rock music and had a small social circle keeping away from mainstream preferences.

 

For my music video, I will be following some conventions & stereotypes and ignoring or even opposing others. As I'm going to be modernising the music video, there will not be the use of much 'cowboy' related clothing other than checked shirts and props such as acoustic guitars.  

                                                                                                                                                                                            

As there was a recent change of plan and in fact my artist is now male, some of the conventions I've analysed will now differ. I say some because the male style is different in some aspects to a female; for instance, I analysed Dolly Parton, clearly as my artist is a man, I can't follow the style she has - Diva Make-up. However, my original plan of modernising can still take affect as nowadays, checked shirts are somewhat popular, thus I can use this. In addition, skinny jeans have been added too, also modernising the style of Country, this provides my audience with some appeal.

Example of Costume for main artist:

                                

 

                                                                      

Ideally, this is the kind of costume that the artist in the music video should be wearing.

I've chose this so that there are country elements to the attire but it still looks modern and something that could be worn and in fashion currently.

Props

As previously stated, props distinguish also the genre of certain songs. As my song is predominant on an acoustic guitar, this will be the signature identifier. However, it's clear that there is some bass involved, this means during the studio shots, I'll have a bassist on either a partial drum kit or drum box. I took this influence from a couple of bands, both have original pieces of music and also do covers. The two influences are: Boyce Avenue and Will Ferri from Against the Current. I guess, quite a bit of influence has been taken from both of these bands, as both have drummers and both have guitarists that can sing. Therefore, I'm essentially taking todays construct of a band and implementing it into my music video.