Clothing Planning.

In order to present and shape the meanings presented in the narrative of the video, the planning of the outfits the actors wear is significant. The choice of clothing is significant for the depiction presented to the audience. Clothes create connotations, these connotations in consequence make the audience understand more about a character and also can make the audience understand the narrative better.
Actor: outfit number one

The first outfit for our actor is a black t-shirt with dark washed denim. The t-shirt design is a white silhouette with a person and then birds scattered around the outside. The use of a black shirt enables to the audience connotations of the rock genre. The use of birds around the outside is an interesting print that creates an enigma for an audience. The use of the silhouette may illustrate the freedom that man seeks, away from the trajectories of the strong manacles of society’s restriction. The sense of this restrictive freedom, on the t-shirt, therefore is the meanings also in the video. The audience therefore can link these two meanings.

Outfit number two:
The second outfit consists of dark denim, a striped grey and black shirt with converse style black shoes. This outfit has a similar dress to the conventional rock artist clothing. This is significant for the audience as they are able to identify the genre of the video simply through the outfit of the actor. The style shoes were deliberately chosen as they are similar to the “converse” shoes associated with rock artists.Actress: Outfit number one

The first outfit consists of the actress wearing a light grey jumper, dark grey skirt and black tights. The use of the grey has connotations to the audience of coldness. The over use of this colour reinforces to the audience this “coldness” and misery that the character endures in the video. How she wears black tights continue the deliberate empathetic depiction of the character as black tights suggest her being reserved, trying to cover up herself.

Outfit number two:

The second outfit continues the reserved nature of the character. The black dress with the striped shirt underneath illustrates again that the actress has something she is hiding, evident in the shirt being “tucked away” behind the dress. The bands on her arm also illustrate to the audience how her problems coil around her, certainly a character presented as suffering from the problems in her life.