Music Video Costumes

We will be using casual urban clothing for our characters to be wearing in the music video.
We feel as our class of status will be around C, that the use of jeans, plain tshirts and trainers should fit this well, and will also identify with our target audience's clothing trends and aspirations. City and Colour use this clothing in their video "Comin' Home", which is the genre we are looking to follow. So the plan is by using these types of clothing, we can use the aspirations their audience will use and the connections they will make with them, and establish those with our audience.
This being the case, our audience can identify with an everyday couple (perhaps like them) and what they face during a break up and reformation of a relationship.

Below is definition of what each character will be wearing:

Male (Ian)

Jacket:

In the first verse when he comes home, he will take off his jacket and throw it over the back of a chair.

T-shirt:


Our character will be in the comfort of his home, allowing him to mix clothes he was wearing at the female's house, and clothes he will be relaxing in at home (everyday wear)

Jeans:

As the male character will be wearing jeans at the female's house, he will remain in these jeans throughout the rest of the video. This conveys the casual approach to the clothing of the male character we are going for.

Trainers:

Again, we are going for the casual approach, and as the male character is wearing these trainers at the female's house when they are having their argument, we see no need for him to remove his trainers when he returnes home.

Female (Jess)

The female character will also be wearing casual clothing as she is in the comfort of her own home. Overall we feel the audience could relate to the casual attire in an easier way and this seems the most appropriate style of clothing for our video.

Top:


She will be wearing a simple top (i will add a photo later on to show how i mean)

Jeans:

Just like the male character, she will be wearing jeans.

Trainers:

As she will be in the comfort of her own home, she will not need to wear trainers until she leaves her house to visit the male character at the end of verse 4. We did not deem it appropriate to add a shot into our video of her putting on any trainers, yet this could be an idea to do so if we have time to spare in our video.

(I will add photos at a later date to show examples of the clothing i have just explained.)