The document lists and describes the main props that will be used in a music video. These include a music player and speakers to play the song, a purple ballet outfit to show the main character is a dancer, a handbag that carries her ballet clothes and drugs, chairs for a judge and waiting area, alcohol bottles and drugs in her bedroom, a mobile phone to advance the plot, makeup to contrast her dancer and drug using sides, a dance pole in the studio, and a bedside and dressing table to set other props. The props help tell the story of a ballerina with a dark secret drug addiction through their symbolism and roles in scenes.

1. PROPS LIST
By Jumana Ismail

2. Main props that we will use in
our music video during the
filming process:
•Music player and speaker
•Ballet outfit
•Bag
• Table for judge
• Alcohol bottles and Drug looking props
• Cigarettes
• Mobile phone
•Make-up
• Pole in dance studio
• Bed side table
• Dressing table

3. Music player and
Speakers
A main prop that we as a group decided to use in our music video are
speakers and the music player that are evident in our music video as the girl
will have to play the music before she performs her ballet dance in the music
video. When the girl presses the music player, the song that we have chosen,
(Youth by Daughter) will be played. By doing so, this highlights the fact that
she is dancing to this song as it resembles the dark side of her life, as well as
creates a sense of realism to the music video.

4. Ballet Outfit
The Ballet outfit of the protagonist in this music video
is the most vital prop needed in our music video as it
enables the audience to identify the fact that this girl
is a ballet dancer that is auditioning for a show. The
colour of her ballet outfit is purple which highlights
the young girls innocence and purity, which is
contrasted later on in the music video to the side in
which she consumes alcohol and drugs. The colour
purple usually symbolises mystery, so therefore the
fact that her outfit is purple will attract the audience
in wondering what may really be happening in this
girls life. The girl will be wearing Pointe's (ballet
shoes) which will enable her to dance and pose on
her pointy feet in order to make it seem very
professional and in order to resemble professional
music videos.

5. The girls hand bag
Although a hand bag seems like such a
quintessential and normal thing for a girl to
carry around, the girls hand bag in this
music video has a lot of significance as she
carries it around everywhere she goes. The
hand bag has to things; her ballet outfit
and her drugs. This emphasises on the fact
that although she tries to separate her two
different lives, they are unwillingly
integrated as they always catch up with her.
We have made sure the girl wears the same
hand bag in all the scenes in order to
highlight the two things needed that she
always carries together. The girl will be
wearing a normal black bag and she will
put it down as she performs her ballet
performance.

6. Chairs
One of the props we have added in our
music table is a chair for the judge to
sit on to watch the girls performance
as well as the chairs in the waiting area
were the girl and the other ballerina
are getting changed.

7. Alcohol bottles
and drugs
In one of the scenes in the girls house the girl has set out bottles of alcohol on
her bed side table and her drugs and cigarettes. We have done so in order to
highlight to the audience what her everyday lifestyle is usually like. In addition,
the fact that there is a lot of alcohol and drugs in her room portrays the fact
that she is an addict and this may be due to an underlying reason.

8. Mobile phone
The use of the mobile phone that we will
add in our music video is a prominent prop
in our music video as in the scene at the girls
house, she will receive a phone call in which
she has saved the person on the receiving
line of the phone as ‘do not answer’. The use
of this is to trigger the curiosity of the
audience and wonder why she has saved
that person in that name and why she is not
answering.
In addition to this, when she answers the
phone she will start crying which may
therefore indicate to the audience that she is
depressed due to something that has
happened with the person that's on the
phone.

9. Make-up
Make-up was vital in depicting the
contrast between the girl as a ballerina
and the girl taking drugs. For example,
we will use light colours and bright eye
shadow when filming the girl in the
dance studio. However, when we film
the girl taking drugs and looking
depressed at home, we will use dark
make-up including black eye shadow
and then smudge it when she is crying.
This enables the audience to know
how thee girl feels and the effect her
life has on her.

10. Dance pole in
studio
The pole in the dance studio enables the girl to perform her ballet on it as
well as giving her the physique to hold her self well. In addition, it makes the
dances look more professional.

11. Bed side and
dressing table
The bed side table enabled us to set out the rest of the props (alcohol
bottles and drugs) to clearly make them visible in our music video. In
addition, the dressing table is used to add realism to her bedroom as well as
making the girl look into the mirror of the dressing table as she wonders and
stares at herself in sorrow and anger.