Props and Costumes

In order to create our music video we need to have different props and costumes to create the music video, these items below show the different types of props and costumes which we need.

We need the artist which is going to be played in our music video by Jordan Gregson and within the music video we want him to be wearing a tracksuit  as this will fit in with the codes and conventions of a rap music video which will make it look effective and realistic. Also as this is similar to what Eminem is wearing in his music video of Lose Yourself which gives me confidence that the artist wearing this will fit in with our music video successfully. 

The use of sugar in our music video is to represent a drug form of Cocaine which will show the bad life choices which he is making in his life and career and the affects of these on him to put a bad image in the public eye which will put people off doing drugs sort of a drug awareness music video.

The setting of our music video is going to be within a house this is because we can use this to create the house party effect in the video which is where the drug taking and alcohol drinking will take place which will be the area to show the bad decisions. 

We have planned for others to be in the shot to represent other people at a party to make the scenes look more realistic. 

Costume

Main artist- 

Throughout the music video the main star is going to be in a grey hoodie along with some tracksuit bottoms, the images below are the type of style we want the artist to wear within the video as this will look effective. We also did not want to put loads of jewelry on our artist which is commonly known in mainstream rap music videos as we wanted to modernise it and also as we want the main focus to be our artist instead of the items he is wearing.

Artist's Girlfriend- 

In the music video we want the girlfriend of the artist to be covered up with their items of clothing so that she does not become the main focus due to the male gaze. The girlfriend will be wearing black jeans with rips in the knees as this is a current fashion trend and our target audience will be able to relate to this. Furthermore, we want our artist;s girlfriend to be in a coat and ankle boots as a lot of the filming including her is based outside and we want to replicate dull, boring weather because this is a code and convention of the rap genre.