Costumes for filming

The style of clothing we went for in our music video would be considered urban/street. We felt this represented the Hip Hop genre of music well.



Stills from Lil Kim's music video 'Lighters Up'

These images are examples of 'street/urban' clothing from a Hip Hop artist's music video. You can tell that their style of clothing isn't 'the latest fashion' but they do still dress well and present themselves in a certain manner.
We have tried to allow this to influence our costumes for our own music video. After we had come up with our storyline, we attempted to style our cast accordingly to they could represent Hip Hop in the way we wanted.

 Analysis of Costumes from our music video 

As you already know our music video is under the influence of the hip hop/rap genre , so as a group we took the ideologies from this genre and put them towards our Costumes. The image you see is a spilt screen of the two characters the main protagonist Nia is on the left. Her costume altogether illustrates a thuggish devious look , she is dressed head to foot in dark colours with her scarf hiding most of her face which is very common in hip hop music videos to show their loss of identity. The logo on Nia's hoodie is  ' G-Unit'  they are a renowned hip hop rap group , we wanted to make reference to this to show similarity to the music video genre.  the left side of the image is Christina she is the 'villain' of the narrative. Her style of clothing has more variation with touches of more colour . she wears a dark green trench coat over a white hoodie we wanted her to contrast with nia, again a scarf to conceal her face to discard her identity which makes her seem threatening. in comparison to Nia, Christina has more layers of clothing to buff her up to justify her stronger character.

Here Nia is wearing the same pair of black trousers because she is on the streets and has a limited amount of clothing . However she does have a white hoodie, the main colours here are white and black which represent darkness ( this links to the harsh gangster life she leads) and the white represents purity and freedom ( this colour illustrates her desire to be free from what she is now and can link in with a religious element so her outfit is juxtapose.

Here is an image from our first chorus in the music video , all chorus's are in black and white although colour of clothing was not important here the shade, style, form and shape was. Leila here is wearing a over-sized, worn denim jacket and leggings and red mining boots. We chose this particular style because it was suited to our urban-like theme.The denim jacket makes Leila look big and strong this links to most rap/hip hop artists making Leila look threatening and gives her a powerful attitude. 

Here Nia is wearing a black fitted beanie hat with a grey coat and burgundy coloured trackie bottoms with worn black trainers. The hat gives her a thuggish image, hats and caps are portrayed a lot in hip-hop   videos it can represent class and status.