Planning The Props

When coming to planning the music video, we had to think about what props and costumes etc we were going to use for the mis en scene of the music video. Here are some screenshots of the props that were used during the music video. Here I'm going to talk about some of the props that are going to be included in the music video that I'm currently working on and why I think they're a good idea to use.

  

This first screenshot is a image of the necklace that the main artist was going to wear. My group and I thought about using this on the main star because of the lyrics that were included in the song for the music video. Because the words "religious" was used in the music video, we thought about giving the main artist a necklace to wear which has a black cross on it. This way we could keep to the black Gothic theme of the music video and keep the religious side of the main artists character.

 

In this second screenshot there are many different types of make-up for both the star and the girl that is going to be included in the music video. My group and I thought it was a good idea to use make-up in the music video because when we looked through images for Gothic themes and looked at some songs that were based around Goth's we saw that there was a lot of make up used in these particular songs. For example, Marilyn Manson and Andy Biersack both wear make-up. We look at a range from band to artists around Gothic themes and found that the main make-up that was used during the music videos were face paints, eye liner, eye shadows and lipsticks.

 

Here are one of the main props that the main artist is going to wear. The shirt that the main artist is going to wear is a butler shirt. The shirt is white with black buttons and a black outline on the collar. We thought that this would be a way of presenting the "sexyness" of the artist and to show the neatless using a butler outfit. Another reason why we thought about using this butler outfit is because it would be seen as unusual by the audience and we wanted to keep that sense throughout the music video.

 

This second prop was going to be used for the shots when the girl was introduced into the music video. As you can see in the image, the prop is a silky material like glove. My group and I thought about using this for the girl in the music video because it lets the audience know that the girl in some way has a sexual way of dressing for the artist in the music video. Another reason for this is to show a real character and to keep to our story-line of how both of the artist and the girl have some sort of sexual connection.

I think planning the costumes and props for the  music video had a big impact onto the whole music video in general. Because my group and I planned what sort of props and costumes were going to be implemented into the music video, I thought to myself that it would make the music video more professional and well planned instead of wearing basic clothing where I thought it wouldn't look as well and fit the theme for the music video that we had planned.