Props

To enhance our music video and make it interesting and easy to understand, the use of props was very important. We used props to help add to our music video and to add to the overall feel of our music video. The use of props included gloves, electronic devices and various other things, all which made our music video easier to understand and help link it to the genre and, similar to those used in the genre, helping add to the generic conventions that we used in our music video.

Gloves: The use of black leather gloves was vital in our production. They were used to enhance Tom (our secondary character who was seen to follow Connor) and make him look scary and in character. Also it showed him in a negative light, as the costume was dark and black. This connotes evil, unlike Connor who was wearing white, which connoted pureness. We wanted a glove which would help build Tom's character and portray him to the audience as being scary and ominous. The actual prop we used did help us and did give off the effect we were after to the audience. The gloves could be seen throughout the music video on Tom, our secondary character. Below is an image showing the glove we used.

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Funeral Pamphlet: This is a very important prop as it is the first point where the audience understand exactly what is happening, and that in fact they do know each other. We made this and made it looked old and dirty by staining it in mud and dirt. We wanted to use this prop as we felt it was important as it helped the audience understand exactly what was happening, and also added to the storyline. We took inspiration of how to make the prop from images we found online, our main inspiration being the pamphlet seen below.

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Mobile Phone: We used this to portray to the audience that the two new each other, this could be seen by the background on the phone showing an image of the two of them. This is the moment that Tom realises who Connor is. Also when considering how we could effectively use this prop, we did consider using an old fashioned looking phone, as we felt it would have fitted in with the general look of our music video, however upon further reflection we realised this wouldn't fit as we also have a car scene in our music video, and the old phone and new car would contrast each other and look odd. We also realised we wouldn't be able to use an older style phone as we wouldn't have been able to have the image of Tom and Connor appear, which was vital in linking the two together and making it clear to the audience that the pair new one another.

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