Costume fitting

Today we organised a costume fitting for the whole band. As we had the whole band we also did a quick rehearsal with the band playing the music. This was very successful and everyone knows their bit including Kate who has learnt the lyrics. This was a good preparation for the video as it gave us an idea of what everyone will look like on the day. Helping us in-vision what the shoot will look like. Today we got each member to try in a few various different outfits, from items we all collectively brought. 

First we looked For Kate our main singer we selected four outfits which we will use on the day, we then have backups for these four outfits incase something gets lost or just doesn’t work on the shoot day. We carried on with this hippie vibey style in which we went for a dark colourful colour palette. We planned the outfits around the shoots on what will go best with each scene, colour wise. I am really happy with all these outfits I think they will really compliment the style we are going for and add to Kates character massively. Below is the four outfits we will use on the day for each scene. Then in the aura scene we have two outfits as we have another idea of doing a full body shot of her dancing, in which we will use the orange dress as we think with the bright vibrant light the orange would be the mosteffective colour and put emphasis on Kate making her stand out. Which is what we want to achieve as she is the main singer. We also selected.

This is one of the outfits we selected for Kate, this outfit we will use in the aura head shot scene. Firstly we felt using a dress would add to the whole beachy vibe as the dress is long and flown which is a typical beach outfit. This particular dress will every effective as it has this yellow tone to it, which when the vibrant light is shon on to it, it will put emphasis on Kate as the yellow will create a cool colour. We then selected this cardigan Kate has to go with the dress as it is this crochet material which has lots of small holes. This could create a cool effect when playing with the light creating potential shadows. We are not sure if this will work and are going to experiment with the lights later this week. However we still think it goes nicely with the dress anyway. It matches the earthy colour palette we are going for with the earthy green tone and yellow together. 

The next outfit is going to go with the outfits above in the same scene, the aura scene. We are using two outfits as it will add another element to our video making it more interesting. However with this outfit we are going to see a full body shot of her dancing in the video. I do not think this is the best option for the full body shot but my group disagreed with my point, which is that I think we could face issues with the skirt rising up as she is dancing, and especially that this shot is a full body shot. Therefore I suggested that we switch the two outfits. However I do really like this outfit as I think the top is very much hippie and bold, it will also again go really nicely with the vibrant colours.

These are the last two outfits we selected, the outfit on the left with the jeans is the outfit for the shack. This is because in this scene we are going to place Kate on the floor lying down a lot therefore it will create less of a hassle with the worry of a dress or skirt rising up. We also felt that jeans is comfortable for Kate to move around in and not have to worry, as we are quite keen on her dancing around with other people in the scene. The second outfit is for the jars scene, we chose this as iyt again matches the earthy vibe. The dress will also put emphasis on Kate as iyt is this yellow orange tone dress, which will be highlighted with the fairy lights. 

This is an image I took of all the jewellery we all brought in, this is particularly for Kate in her outfits. As the outfits are somewhat simple we are quite keen on using lots of jewellery to add to the outfit. Also the usage of jewellery adds to the hippie character and this unique earthy girl who has her cool crystal necklaces. As well as Kate using the jewellery we are going to put the boys in some less prominent jewellery to add to their outfit. Two of the boys have their ears pierced so `I thought that we could get them to both wear one earring each from the same set of two. This idea of them sharing earrings suggest the friendship they share within the band. Connecting them not as just a band but as a group of friends.