Costumes

For our music video we chose the costumes for the different characters in order to highlight major stereotypes in our society so that the audience would be able to easily identify the characters. These stereotypes play a significant role in our storyline in our music video. It was vital that the audience would be able to identify these characters and what they stood for quickly. For our upper class character we chose stereotypical, upper class clothing in order to symbolise wealth and prosperity. The costume for the upper class character is as follows; shirt, black trousers and black shoes. This is stereotypical attire for a upper class person to wear and which in our music video highlighted that the character was upper class. The costume shows and demonstrates the characters sophistication and honour.
For the Lower class two characters, similar to the previous character, we chose stereotypical clothes which an audience could easily associate with the lower class culture. The lower class characters wore; A hooded sweatshirt, jeans and trainers.
These are stereotypical clothes wore by the lower class. It highlights qualities of the lower class such as the hooded sweatshirt is know to be associated with thieves and anti social behaviour as their identity is hidden. Finally the uniformity of having similar costumes for both lover class characters will create a connected identity for the lower class, like a collective consciousness to up rise and rebel against the upper classes. The stereotypical costumes of the characters also make it easier to make the link between our music video and the sociology theory, Marxism, created and founded by Karl Marx. This will have our music video solidly grounded in sociological links to create a larger meta narrative and deeper meaning.