Costume notes

Costume notes

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  Costume Notes
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  The clothing usedwill generally be casual and smart casual clothing. This not only fits in with our target audience, and in this way allows us to relate to them, but also it conforms to the conventions of pop/rock music videos. Casual clothing will tend to include a t shirt, or jumper, denim jeans, trainers (normally Converses), hoodie, and loose jacket. Sonam will be wearing nude coloured clothing, too, to suggest that her identity has been stripped from her. The band members will have more freedom to express themselves through colour, although black and white will be more ideal to represent the colours of ‘POLAR’ – demonstrating the idea of binding opposing ideas of black vs. white, male vs. female. Moreover, the slightly older character, the young business man will be wearing smarter clothing – he will be in a suit to suggest that he slightly more affluent and successful – he represents the succeeders of the target audience, and therefore show the variation of young people as both positive and negative. The band members will therefore still be in the casual clothing, but as ‘thug’ youths, dressed in hoodies and low-waisted jeans or tracksuit bottoms to depict the more delinquent representations of young people which Arnas attempts to detach himself from.
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  Sonam • Black Hoodie-Hide away from being objectified in the environment. The fact that it is black suggests that relates to the hidden, the secretive and the unknown. Also it creates a barrier between itself and the outside world, providing comfort while protecting its emotions and feelings, and hiding its vulnerabilities, insecurities and lack of self confidence. • Nude trousers and Vest- the reason we decided that she wears nude clothing is to show that her identity has been stripped from her. • Black boots- • No make up – natural • Hair left out natural
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  Arnas • Black turtleneck jumper – to make him look smart and different to the other youths (detach himself from) • Black trousers- part of our Polar group colours, and also shows two extremes of the two colour. • Black and white trainers- similar to above.
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  Jerard and Kyle •Hoodies- typical of young youth collective identity as they are carefree. • Jeans- low waisted- this is to represent the ‘thug’ youths and it is a typical stereotype for them to wear low waisted jeans. • Masks- One reason is because they have double roles and the other is to conceal their identities, and that they are dehumanising and make them unusual to the audience. • Red hoodie (Kyle) – signifies the criminal activity, as the connotations of red are danger, blood. He would be wearing the red hoodie when he wants to rob the victim (Goncalo).
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  Goncalo • Goncalo hasdouble roles • Dark blue stripped top – Which makes him look as if he is robbing her innocence when he tries touching her leg up. • Mask- to hide his identity and the fact that he plays a double role. • In the second role he will be wearing a Parka jacket, black top and black jeans, as he will be a victim where he is getting robbed.