1. A2 G324 Media Studies Music Video
Treatment Sheet: Two – Style, Costume
and Make up
Jacob Egan & Liam Walker
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2. Concept
The performances of the characters will play an important role in our video, the
victim playing the underdog role, eventually overcoming his bully in the end, and
in turn grabbing his dream girl. The main character will be the victim; the
camera techniques and editing will be following his struggles over a normal day
of school. The idea is to place the audience as a fly on the wall in the whole
situation, siding them with the bully’s victim, making them feel sympathetic
towards him. Gradually building up to him overcoming his fears and standing up
for himself, winning the audience over. As stated before the performance will be
key, the audience needs to believe he is tired of running away from his problems
and is ready to stand up for himself. It fits to the genre in a way that the victims
are rebelling against the normal bully situation where most would shy away
from standing up to them, which is similar to pop punk refusing to adhere to the
normal rules.
Style
The overall style of the characters in our music video will be very similar to the
actual music video we are trying to take ideas from. The overall colouring of the
clothing will be dark to represent the type of music as its not slow and peaceful.
We will also try to adhere to the punk genre when thinking of the clothing that
will be used within the video, trying to follow the stereotypical pop punk band
member such as the ones in the music video as well others we have researched
to appeal to the audience who enjoy this genre. As well as the costume and
colours used we will need to make sure the performance of each character is
convincing enough to be a part of the particular genre, with aspects of rebellion
and mischief featured throughout.

3. Costume
The costumes we will be using for the characters in our music video will be very
simple but will make it so that it fits very well with other music videos in the
same genre, as the characters have a similar kind of dress sense to the genre it
will not be too much of a task finding the right articles of clothing for the
characters. Skinny jeans, plain t-shirts, leather jackets, dark clothing will be
needed to make it fit the genre style of the video.
After researching other band members for their
style and clothing it created ideas for our characters
we are going to use. Alex Gaskarth, lead singer of
pop punk band All Time Low was a great example to
use to find out what type of clothing we could use to
show the conventions of costume in the genre. His
canvas shoes with tight skinny black jeans are
perfect examples of a pop punk band member.
Another example we researched to
see what type of costume we could
use was lead singer of Green Day
Billie Joe Armstrong, his type of
costume was perfect for the type
we are going to use, the dark
clothing with very rare bright
colours featured. The skinny jeans
and longish hair is also a key
feature of a pop punk band
member which we will need to try
and follow as much as possible
when thinking about our video and
actually shooting it.

4. The band Panic! At the disco are also another
band that we can take ideas from when it
comes to the costume of our characters. As
seen from this image of the four together, the
main repeated colour is black, which will
definitely be featured on our characters. As
with the Billie Joe Armstrong example there
are a few exceptions to the dark colouring of
clothing, with a rare sighting of a bright
colour, in this case the colour is bright pink.
This could show the difference between this
genre and the one which is much more dark
and emotional. The bright colour could also
be seen as rebellion against the genre of
being dark, as the genre itself is all about
rebellion and such. The make up used on this
particular band could also be a factor we
would consider when making our characters
look the part for a scene.
Make Up
As stated in the previous photo of band Panic! At the disco, this type of make up
could be used on our characters as it is black and features an aspect of gothic
nature. It’s very simple but is very noticeable on the character, if we were to sue
make up this would be the sort of thing, which would be featured in our music
video.
However, having said that I do not think make up will be used in our music video,
the colouring of the costume and style will be key and as most pop punk band
members recently are very masculine such as A Day To Remember. The use of
make up may make the video look unrealistic and therefore will not fit into the
genre conventions we had hoped when thinking of ideas for our music video.