Star Image

As I decided to change my video concept, including the story, actors and locations, my star image had a drastic change as to what I expected it to first be. In the first 'Embrace This Day' story, lovers Alice and Charlie were a couple who had suffered a break up and were learning ways to get back together. Looking back, it was extremely difficult to place a 'star image' on the two, as my plan was to make the audience realize that these were two, very ordinary and normal teenagers. However, as I changed my plot, my star image began to develop.  Zarenna Porter, my main actress was playing both the singer and the fallen angel where eventually at the end of the song, she becomes both people. My chosen song Embrace This Day is a dance song and therefore uses several upbeat and exciting sounds, however due to the narrative of the Fallen Angel, I wanted to contrast against the lyrics by using Zarenna's image.

Costume

The costume I decided to make Zarenna wear was simply a black turtle neck top for the singing shots, as I believe that the idea of her neck being covered up as well as her chest and shoulders enhances the fact that this person is very guarded off and is not embracing herself or the day she is in. However the fallen angel costume is quite different. I asked Zarenna to come to filming in all white/natural colours which will contrast heavily against the black angel wings and eye mask that she is wearing to present her angel characteristics. I wanted to  show that this angel once embraced herself but experienced a lot of pain and therefore is now an angel with dark features to illuminate her upset.

Make up

In a few shots, I decided to draw black stripes down Zarenna's face whilst she was singing. I decided to do this as I thought that it would represent her 'otherness' to people and the song very clearly as it is not often you see people with stripes down their face. It was important to me that I showed that she was different to the audience by using this make up as I thought that the plain shots of her singing would not express her unique image to the audience well enough. In the shots that I have used the stripes I additionally added video effects on top such as a mild Gaussian blur to show how the stripes may be effecting her vision and her feelings are trapping her in a jail (represented by vertical lines going down her face). Zarenna also wears red nail varnish when she is seen touching her face to leave the audience wondering whether they represent evil or love inside of her mind.