Costume/Props

In music videos people tend to wear a variety of clothes. In pop music videos they usually wear trendy clothes. We have taken this idea into account and our actor in our music video will be wearing trendy clothes. This will involve chinos, a t shirt, and shoes. These will be the clothes that the actor will be wearing when he is outside the house in the field.


The other costume that we are going to use is a monkey onesie, we have chosen a monkey onesie because in Bruno Mars official music video he has actors wearing monkey masks, and also in the song the lyrics say 'chilling in my snuggie' which matches with a onesie. We also think that the onesie will give the lazy look about the actor which then links to the title and lyrics of the song 'Lazy Song'.



Another very important part of the music videos is the props that are used in it. The props help the audience understand the story line of the song. The first prop that will be used in our video is an alarm clock. The alarm clock will be used at the very start and the very end of the song linking to the start of the day and the end of the day. Another prop that we will be using is a mobile phone, the phone will be used because in the song there are lyrics that say 'Don't feel like picking up my phone, so leave a message at the tone' we will then film a phone having a missed call so that it can link to the lyrics of the song. We are also going to use a phone to show texts as lyrics in the song. The next prop that we will use is a television and a fan, we have chosen these too props as the lyrics mention it in the the song and we believe that it will suit the video very well as it is to do with laziness. A TV symbolises someone being lazy as they are sat around doing nothing. We are using a fan because we think that having a random prop placed in the video will make the video more interesting as the audience will wonder why it is there. We have also chosen these props because we can get our hands on them easily and we will not have to spend money on them. Another reason for why we are using them is because they are easy things to include in a video as they are static and do not move.

Overall we believe that the costumes and props that we will be using will relate to the lyrics to the song and will hopefully produce a good quality music video that stands out as a product. The costume and props will tell the story of the song giving the audience an idea what is going on.

Another one of the props that we will be using is a graduation hat. During part of the song, bruno mars says how he 'might get my collage degree, i bet my old man would be so proud of me'. For this might show the typical convention of how graduations are filmed and we shall film the hat being thrown into the air. We might also show the dad being happy when he graduates, but when he says about 'sorry paps you'll just have to wait', we could show something like the dad being disappointed, or we could rewind the shot of the hat being thrown into the air, and showing it coming down, to show that he in fact, isn't going to get his degree.