Character Costume and makeup

There are 2 different scenes of my music video with 3 different costumes needed in total. Here is what is needed and why:

Plain background scene:

Feature

- A t-shirt with a flannel shirt over of any colour.

Why?:

- T-shirts and flannel shirts both share masculine and feminine attributes to them so during this scene the characters gender through clothing will not be stereotyped to his male gender. Also, there does not need to be specific colour to this costume because all colours can be universal (and if pink was involved then that could simply add to the message that comes in later during the video that clothing does not necessarily define a person on first glance). Trousers/bottom clothing does not matter at this point because it will be filmed from the chest and up.

Feature:

- Red lipstick and eye makeup for part of this scene:

Why?:

- This scene will have all of the mouthed parts of the song in it so that the bedroom scene can look more realistic and relatable. So, I want there to be parts where the meaning of the video can be established through the singing parts as well as the narrative parts of the bedroom scene - David will transition from male to female as the video progresses, and this scene will be part of that transition also.

Bedroom scene:

Male costume

Feature:
- Grey t-shirt and baggy jeans.
Why?:
- Grey has semantic codes of being bleak, boring, bad, mundane and negative. This is how we want to represent the character when dressed as male because trans* people can get deeply depressed over their assigned gender at birth when they pursue it through clothing for whatever reason (perhaps social pressure or nonacceptance from those around them), and this can make them even more body dysphoric than they already are.

Female Costume

Feature:
- Red lipstick and a floral dress.
Why?
- Dresses are extremely feminine, which increases the hard hitting effect that this concept will have on an audience - dresses are a world away from men's fashion, meaning no man would desire to wear a dress, enforcing the fact that the character is simply not a man and was never intended to be a man - it was simply her assigned gender at birth. The lipstick is also important as it shows consistency with the plain background scene - they are linked through narrative, conventions and message.