Costume Research
We believe that the costume should link to the song and because our video has certain amount of actors including the star, as a group we decided that we need to have a good amount of individual costumes that represents their roles in the video. Our main star R Kelly (Solomon), has to have a costume that can link to the song genre for e.g. a rock song will have bands dressed in barbaric costume to represent and link to the song. Our song’s genre is RnB so we decided that our main Star should have casual clothing.

One of the main actors in our video is a Basketball player, for us this was really easy to decide what costume the character would wear. In the video there is a scene where he is training shooting hoops in a basketball court. We decided that he would be wearing shorts and t-shirt or a vest top.

Another character in the video is a female dancer auditioning in a dance competition. We decided that the character would have a Hip-Hop style of dancing so we thought that her costume would be linked to her style. That style of clothing will include loose jeans, jewellery, hat etc.

The last main character in this video is the singer trying to sing a song perfectly. We decided that this character would have more of an Indie but casual style of clothing. WE had brainstorm of ideas of what clothing he would wear in this video. At first we decided that he should just wear a normal casual type of clothing but we thought that it’s a bit dull and we wanted something that would link more to the whole idea of his role and so we came up with the following; A hat, casual shirt and skinny jeans.

We focused more on our main characters and our main star rather than coming up with ideas of what the ‘extras’ would wear. We came up with other ideas of clothing with each characters including the star from there, it helped us decide what is the right clothing (costume) to create that strong link to their styles and our main song.