Costume, Hair And Make-up

Studio

Costume
For the studio costumes, we have decided to go with a black and white colour scheme to contrast the black and white studio setups, inspired by the likes of FKA Twigs and AlunaGeorge.

Using their costume as a guideline for how to make plain block colour studio shots look interesting, we designed a quirky and interesting costume that we thought reflected our artist's genre, personality and style. For the male artist, his costume will be a collarless shirt, skinny jeans and Adidas trainers with and necklace for both the black and white setups. For the female artists outfit, she will be wearing a baggy light top, fish net tights, platform shoes and a necklace. Both artist will have face paint across their eyes, either in a solid block line or dots in a pattern (black for the male artist and white for the female artist, to contrast their skin tones). 

 These costumes would be replicated exactly and inverted to white for the white on black scenes

Makeup
As our artists are not really over the top and the song is quite slow paced, we decided that having naturalistic and simple makeup for the artists would be better, also seeing as the costume is unique but not over the top. Luckily one of my friend's parents is a professional make up artist, and so gave me a tutorial as to how to do male makeup for a studio. Also, the makeup artist for the media department's girls shoot came in to tell Vivian how she should alter her makeup for studio lights, although she already had a good knowledge of natural and simplistic makeup. In addition to Vivian's makeup, she will be wearing fake eyelashes, in order for her image to look more interesting.

Hair
For hair, we will be using our own hairstyles altered slightly with gel and hairspray.
                                                                                                                                                                                                       

After shooting in the studio for the first time and reviewing the footage, we decided that the costumes for the artists were way too simplistic for the effect we were going for.

When reevaluating, we ordered some accessories that would make the artist's image more unique and interesting, drawing the audience's attention more.

The final costumes ended up looking like this:

On location
When on location, rather than plan every costume that Louis and Gina wear, we have asked them to wear their normal clothes. The way they dress normally is that of a typical teenager so there are no issues with style, and it's more convenient this way as we don't have rummage through their wardrobes. Here are a few examples of what they have worn on set so far: