Costume

The reason that Freya was chosen to wear dresses within the video, is to portray femininity. The song is a summery and feminine so the outfits match the relaxed, frivolity of the music.
Another style of costuming that is commonly used within female music videos, to increase the singers appeal is lingerie and beach wear. This use of female objectification utilises the male gaze and use sexuality as a selling point below is an image Lady Gaga, in her music video poker face; who is known for her extrovert and revealing outfits.The reason we chose not to create Freya into a sexual object is because our target audience is statistically female and we wanted them to feel as though they could connect with her. Also the song is innocent and so we wanted the character to emulate that innocence.
Other commonly used mode of dress is casual wear such as in the picture below of Taylor Swist in her video, teardrops on my guitar. Theses costumes are used to create reality within a character in her song Taylor is singing about unrequented love, she is telling a story and so needs to apper to be normalistic. It also allows her audience to connect with her, and emphsise with the fellings she is vocalising. We decided to use this casual approach within Freya’s costumes to add to our characters likeability.
Another costume that Taylor wears in some of her videos is prom or fantasy dresses. This is due to the fact that most of her songs are about love, telling storys and happy endings. We chose not to use this in out video as we wanted to maintain realism.

Character choice

The reason that Julian was substituted for Freya for the new shoot was because we wanted to use a realistic representation of our artist and that meant having a female lead, so that we could lip-sync parts of the song.

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