Costume and Actor Choices

Actors: 
Our main character will be Lauren, who is in our media group and also acted in our music video as the main characters sister. She takes drama and partakes in productions outside of school. We chose her because she is in our group so knows the concept of the music video and is easily contactable for shooting. She also lives near all of us so travelling won't be a problem. 

Our supporting actress is Molly, who also goes to our school and is in Lauren's drama class. She is also an aspiring actress and take part in many productions as well. Her role in the music video will be Lauren's imaginary best friend while she is asleep and dreaming. Another reason we chose her is because she looks very similar to Lauren and they could pass for sisters. This reflects into our music video as Molly reflects Lauren 'other' self. Molly is more eccentric and happy and this happiness wears off on Lauren and makes her feel better.  



We will also use extra actors for the classroom and paint war scene, but we will use the people in our group and our friends because they are reliable and we can use them then and there rather than having actors which we would have to scout, but have no real effect on the final cut of the music video. 

Costumes:

Lauren, the main character will be wearing dull, grey pyjamas while in bed and in the beach dream. This connotes her boring reality still being incorporated within her dreams. Furthermore, they also show the audience that she is asleep and aware the audience that this part of her dreaming state. By wearing pyjamas it emphasises her vulnerability when she's asleep and innocence. 

Molly will be wearing a white shirt, black trousers and a pirate hat when we are filming the beach dream scene. This has intertextuality to the film Pirates of the Caribbean 




When she enters the vintage dream, Molly her imaginary best friend helps her become apart of the 1960's era with hair and make up. This reflects Lauren slowly drifting into a deeper sleep and becoming happier and more immersed within her dreams because she is further away from her reality which she finds boring and tiresome. Because the vintage car they will be driving around in is from the 60's we have decided to reflect the costume ideas and hair and make-up around the car. 
While researching I found that the beehive was the iconic hairstyle of the 60's with loose curls that framed the persons face. Other hairstyles included low ponytails and cropped hair but seeing as both of the actors we are using have long curly hair, the beehive seems the easiest option. We would straighten their hair then back-comb the top to make it more poofy and then do big curls at the bottom. A film that reflects the style we want to achieve is Emma Stone in the 2011 film 'The Help'. 

As for make up, heavy eyes is key, using mainly mascara on the bottom lashes and having strong eyebrows and winged eyeliner. Lauren will still be wearing her pyjamas but Molly will wear a polka dot dress as shown below which reflects the fashion of the 60's as well as Marilyn Monroe's style in that decade. 




Paint war

We will use two extra actors for this part of the dream to create 'war' scene. Molly and Lauren will be fighting Abbie and Marcus (two of our friends) who both have fair hair so it creates an opposite to the other team. By this point in the dream, Lauren is completely immersed and interpolated so she is wearing the same outfit as everyone and has her hair the same as Molly. It shows the audience that she is far away from her dismal reality and is happy inside. 
The costume for this dream was a plain white top and black jeans or leggings. We chose this outfit so when using the mid shots and close ups, the paint shows up on the white tops and black jeans to contrast the top and make it stand out on the camera more.