Cast List and Costume

Character: Main character (late teenage boy)

Actor: Joe Stevens

Age: 17

School/Subjects: City of Norwich School/Media Studies, Psychology and Design and Technology: Graphic Design

Lives In: Norwich, Norfolk, England

Costume: Casual T-Shirt: shows the mainstream, pop genre of the song. The writing and light colours reflect this side of the genre through the character.

This image of the band shows their
costume - our main characters
costume reflects the costume
of the band

Dark Grey Suit: this reflects the costume of the actual band (The Colours) that contains suits and waistcoats. This relates the main character to the band. It also has references to several thriller movies where a suit is a generic piece of the costume. We can use this later in the music video if we want to create intertextual references - such as the shot of the main characters feet walking out of the bedroom which has an intertextual reference to the start of Kill Bill: Volume 2 where you see Bills feet as he walks (the clip is shown below).

Navy Blue Jeans: The darker colour of his jeans in contrast to his top and suit connotes that there is a darkness hidden away in the character - he appears happy and content, but there is regret and jealousy inside him.

Stylish, Converse-Like Shoes: These show the style of shoes usually worn by 16-25 year-olds (our target audience) in contemporary Britain. This makes our character relevant and a reflection of our target audience.

Character: (Ex-) Girlfriend (a similar age to the main character)

Actress: Alice Childerhouse

Age: 17

School/Subjects: City College Norwich/Film and Media, Social Media

Lives in: Norwich, Norfolk, England

Costume: Red Jumper: Red is often associated with passion and love, which is a major theme of our music video. Colours are often used throughout our music video (to show emotions and to play on the name of our selected band, The Colours), and red is the colour used most of all (e.g. in the bedroom at the start of the music video, there is a red bed cover and a red light-lit alarm clock in the mise-en-scene that are focused on heavily), so this red jumper would really strike you and compliment the use of colour in our music video.

White T-Shirt: The small amount of the white t-shirt that is visible on the girl connotes that there is a purity and kindness to the girl underneath the emotions (shown by the red jumper, read above) as white is associated with purity.

Jet Black Trousers: These trousers construct a visual contrast in the girls costume.