Costume and Styling Ideas

The theme behind the song that I am using for my music video is about growing up and so I wanted to create a sense of childhood and innocence through my use of costumes. When styling my model for both my video and my ancillary texts, I strictly followed conventions and stereotypes to ensure that the message I was trying to portray was definitely understood by the audience.
I dressed my model in a pink and white striped jumper, jeans which were ripped at the knee and pink converse boots which paired well with the jumper. In addition to this outfit which suggested innocence and childhood, I styled her hair in plaits as I felt this was a cute hair style and had strong connotations childhood and innocence as well as also being very girly which worked well with the dominating colour of the clothing which was pink.

Pink and White Striped Jumper:












Ripped Jeans:

Pink Converse Boots:













Plaited Hair:

Because of the connotations of childhood and innocence, I chose not to use any make up on my model as I thought not only would it be inappropriate to use make up on an 8 year-old, in my opinion, but it would also be unrealistic and models in music videos within the indie genre are not usually wearing a full face of make up so even if my model had of been at a suitable age to wear make up, I would've chosen to a natural look anyway.