Music Video: Actors, Costumes & Location Choices

ACTORS
We started looking at the possibilities of many people who could be in our music video, although our sixth form is full of people we felt we needed people we could rely on turning up to every filming session. We took into account the actors we'd need to match the indie genre of our video and decided we wanted 5 boys to be the band alongside a girl who would be apart of the story within the song. Two of the people we've decided on is Zak and myself as we didn't want to rely on too many people out of the group to co-operate and we felt that it would be easier to organise the meeting of four people as opposed to organising times that would be good for six different people.

The other actors we have chosen are:
- Louie Austen
- Jake Robinson
- Joe Mortimer
- Ryan Wilson

Although Zak and I appear in the video there will be opportunity for us to film as I'm not constantly appearing in the video and Zak is in a majority of the video but will help plan shots as well as helping edit on imovieHD as that is essentially his strongest asset.

COSTUMES
Whilst researching our chosen band, The Maccabees, we found that most of their videos incorporate bright colour and it gave us the idea of having the actors wear bright colours within the video itself. As we wanted our video to seem more interesting we've decided on a set of three outfits for our actors.
1. Coloured hoodies, white t-shirts, blue or black skinny jeans and black converse/trainers.
2. Black shirts with coloured ties, blue or black skinny jeans and black converse/trainers.
3. Coloured checked shirts, polo's or t-shirts, blue or black skinny jeans and black converse/trainers.
As a group we chose a set of primary colours for each actor to allocate themselves to having the choice of Red, Blue, Purple, Green, Orange and Yellow.



The colours each of them chose were:

Louie - Purple

Zak - Blue

Joe - Red

Ryan - Green

Jake - Yellow/Orange

LOCATIONS
To make it easier for our actors we decided to make our locations local due to transport and lack of time for not only our actors but also us as a group.

The choices of locations included:

-Church Langley area in Harlow as we'd be using the big hill situated in a field, the woods, a bridge and other streets within the area.

- Louie's studio for the use of instruments within the video.

- The drama studio for shots of the main singer.

- Jess' house for the final shots for the last verse.