Ideas for the female Costume.

The female costume we intend to choose is very simple, as we were shooting our actress and the narrative was based around her being homeless, we wanted the conventions of the costume to show this and make the character clear to the audience. Re-searching into homeless people was challenging for us as a group, so we had to use our own imagination and create the outfit ourselves. We felt like we wanted to make the girl look grubby and cheap, so using the simple outfit portrayed the correct idea and set the scene for the music video.

We chose this dark vest top which is an item of clothing we will kept throughout the whole of the video, we chose black as it gives connotations of darkness,this colour is known to be 'bad' and gives a negative representation. We want to show the girl was in a very low stage in her life so if we use a bright colour top this wouldn't relate to the video.
This vest top is also going to be used throughout the prostituion scene but we will 'glam' this up by removing the hooded jacket she wears throughout - by removing the jacket she shows more skin as the top is slightly revealing. We also intend to place prominant make-up on the actress to show the video is leading into a different scene.

This is the hoodie we want to use throughout, we thought by having a very dull colour along with the black vest top would show the emotions she is feeling. We are going to make the hoodie look more 'tramp like' by rubbing dirt and mud into the jacket so the outfit is very realistic for the role of a homeless person.

I believe the ripped tights completes the outfit and by ripping random holes in them can really create a clear image of the character to the audience and a sense of reality. We also used these in the prostitute scene, which proves even though she's tried to glam up she doesn't have the money to buy a new outfit.