Preliminary- Character & costume plan

Characters and costumes 

After completing the analysis task we decided as a group as to who would take on the role of Kanye West and Keri Hilson. Although due to our group containing three members, including myself, we felt that it would be right if Abi took on the role of Kanye West due to her already knowing the sung lyrics within our chosen section. In addition with us only having a limited amount of time to plan and rehearse the video we felt that this wouldn't be long enough for myself and Izzy to learn the verse, so therefore felt that it would be wiser for us to share the role of Keri as we had more of an understanding of her lyrics. 

Kanye West played by: Abi                                          

Keri Hilson played by: Izzy and I 

 

Within the music video the costume choice is shown to frequently alter, especially Keri's. Therefore we decided that we would be more efficient if Izzy had 1-2 different outfits and also for myself to have 1-2 different outfits, as Keri has more than one costume in the extract. Therefore the reason for this is because we would be able to spend less time changing our costumes and makeup, resulting in more time and effort spent on the actual filming/recording. 

Kanye's costume choice:

• Black sunglasses 
• Gold chain and watch 
• Denim Jacket
• Orange T-shirt
• Black leather gloves 

Keri's costume choices:

• White vest top
• Gold hoop earrings
• Black leggings 
• Black waist coat
• Black and white leather gloves 

• Long white Vest top
• Green mini skirt
• Blue/purple leather jacket
• Gold hoop earrings 
• Gold necklaces  

• Beats headphones
• Baseball Jacket
• White vest top

Fortunately we have managed to find costumes and props that would be appropriate to use for the music video, although due to official video being released in 2009, the style of fashion was different and much more vibrant during that era compared to today , therefore some items of clothing isn't owned by ourselves or our peers so instead we are going to wear similar styled clothing that we felt had a close match to the costumes worn by Keri in the video.