Costume for the Army boys

We also need to research the clothing for the Army people. Below we have found the outfit that they will be wearing. 

This helps the viewing audience to see that they are from the army and in the music video, they are exercising like army guys should. We use them a few times in our film because they are professional yet at times we are going to make them funny so we have a contrast between them.

Costume and Make Up for Audrey Hepburn

For one of our scenes within our music video we are having a dream sequence that involves Audrey Hepburn. For our character playing Audrey Hepburn we wanted them to look like her so the viewing audience would be able to make the link with the lyrics and the visuals. Which follows Andrew Goodwin's 6 point analysis theory. We researched her make up and look, as this is what we found...

Here we can see that she has a big necklace which stands out and a silk dress with gloves. She also has a very stylish hairdo that is high and common for them times. Her make up is not very out there. She has eye liner on and red lipstick and some foundation but she hasnt got a lot on. 

Costume List

-Fruit: banana, orange, gorilla

-Old SpiceGirls: long skirts, blouses, white hairspray rather than buying wigs? Walking sticks, 3D glasses so they look ‘hip’: ginger union jack thing, baby lollipop & teddy bear, posh short all black, scary afro and animal print, sporty with a basketball wearing hoody and a skirt 

- Dancer:  tutu, black leggings, bright leg warmers, white trainers, sweatbands, headbands

-Clown: exaggerated makeup

-Baby grow

- Exercise boys – leader: camouflage stuff, black lines on face like war paint, military boots, head bands/bandannas. Others: camouflage trousers & tops (doesn’t matter top wise to be honest)

-Michael Jackson – white gloves and socks, black shoes, suit trousers, black hat, red shirt or jacket, braces, bow tie perhaps

-Chicken suit & an egg made out of polystyrene which will be shaped into an oval shape and painted a egg shell colour

-Harry Potter – black bin bags as capes, glasses, school tie, scar on heads, brooms, twigs and sticks as wands

-Court Judge – Gavel, wig, black bin bag cut into dress, black trousers & black long sleeved top underneath, proper shoes, coloured strip of material to put round shoulders or just a scarf

-Chav – Orange, back combed hair, OTT makeup, fake eye lashes, pale lips, chewing gum, pink top, hoop earrings, big heals, black trousers of some sort

-Mad scientist – lab coat, back combed hair with a ruler in it, bow tie, glasses, experiment exploded in face so black bits everywhere, have a copy of periodic table

-Statue – paint them silver, either find a plain dress of the same colour or get a white dress and paint it that colour, every inch of them must be coloured this way, dress in ancient Greek style. If we cannot paint them then we will just dress them as someone from ancient Greece – need sandals 

Statue

In this scene, one of the judges will be painted to visually look like a statue. The purpose of this is to convey the idea that the judge is not amused by the acts and is incredibly bored. To get the visual appearance, we will paint the judges skin with metallic paint and also spray paint their hair grey. The statue will be dressed in grey and we will need to ensure that the character remains stationary and incredibly still so they would appear to look as realistic as a genuine statue as possible. 

Mad Scientist

The costume for the 'Mad Scientist' in our music video is going to look like the image on the left. The character will be wearing a white laboratory coat which we will be borrowing from the chemistry department at our school. We will make the lab coat dirty by placing ash and stains which will hopefully give the visual look of the scientist previously carrying out experiments. We will backcomb the hair of the mad scientist as it will look like they have just been in an explosion involving chemicals during his latest experiment. We will spray paint his hair grey as scientist are usually associated of being retired ad old. The mad scientist will also be wearing thick lensed round glasses to convey the geeky look.

Cadet Boys

The 'cadet boys' visual appearance is easy to attain as the outfit worn by the army members consist of camougflage patterened clothing;bulky jacket and baggy trousers, black sturdy army boots, military flat cap and also war paint smeared across their cheekbones. For this extract, we will be using genuine cadet boys therefore they already own these items of clothing which means there is less hassle for our group to create the costume for these auditioners.

Old/Aged

To achieve an aged visual appearance for our 'lamb dressed as mutton' SpiceGirls, the group will use darker than skintone eyeshadows and pale creamed foundation. This will emphasise the depth of the wrinkles and enables us to draw on wrinkles on the forehead and jawline. The props used will also include walking sticks as this a stereotypical object that the elderly tend to have. The SpiceGirls will also be dressed in cardigans and bonnet; convention of the type of clothing worn by the elderly.

Chav Makeup

Katie Price is infamously known as the biggest celebrity chav in the UK. She is an inspiration in our music video as one of the judging panels in our 'Famous' video is a chav. The picture on the right has given our group some tips we can use for the makeup of our judge. We will pile on loads of fake tan to get the 'essex tango-ed' look. Also the blusher will overload be overloaded on the cheekbones to show the stereotypically OTT visual appearance. Bold black fake eyelashes will also be applied with heavy black smokey eye makeup to make the appearance dramatic. We will finish off the look by smothering the lips with bright neon fusion pink lipstick, finished of with lipgloss. The chav will also be chewing on a bubblegum and draped in 'bling' and dressed in baby pink clothing.

Clown

The image on the right of the clown is an inspiration look of what we would like the clown embedded in our video to look like. We will use white to highlight the shape around both the eyes and mouth and we will define the outline by using bold colours. We will also draw a red circle on the tip of the nose as this is the stereotypical convention of a clown or instead if possible, we shall use a red nose day sponge styled nose. We will also use brightly coloured balloons that the clown could be holding as this is cheap and will make the whole visual aspect of the scene with the clown more creative.

Rainbow Smokey Eyeshadow With Rainbow Lips Tutorial

For the dancer, we believe the makeup above would complete the look as it embellishes the stereotypical neon colours that the dancer is wearing; such as the bright tutu/rara skirt, and it makes the whole look adventurous. The facial makeup gives a bold statement and features well in our dramatic and theatrical video that we aim to create. It also amplifies the visual look and will help the audience understand that the character part of the theme of rave.

Also to complete the look, we decided to save money by making our own tutu by purchasing different neon colour netting and making the tutu by sewing the mesh material onto an elasticated white material. The band should be bigger than the waist measurements of the dancer. Below is an image of a tutu which we hope to achieve.