Characters and Costume- Joe (Felix)

Our main male
character

For our male lead, we are going to use the character of a young adult male named Joe (Played by our friend Felix) who is a admirable and tentative young man who falls in love with Holly, but the relationship pushes the two to their limits and reveals an irritable, dull and impatient side to himself.
Myself and Joe therefore chose to cast Felix as our male lead, as his own qualities perfectly match those we desired to be present within the character which we felt would portray a sense of realism within our music video,and therefore strengthen the narrative and the audiences emotional response from the video. As well as this, Felix is also aesthetically ideal for our music video, being tall and prominently masculine looking which we felt was especially important to put across in our music video, so that the audience are aware of the characters roles and their relationship. 
We also felt that Felix would be suitable for the role as he also had previous modelling experience and was confident in front of a camera, and as he is also a close friend of both us, and Holly, it meant that we knew we would feel comfortable working with one another and the whole shoot would consequently run smoother.

For his costume, we decided that he would wear a simple jeans and a shirt, as it shows him as much more ordinary, masculine and mainstream in contrast to Holly, and therefore is an early signifier to the audience that there are subtle differences between the couple, even from early on in the music video, suggesting to the audience that the relationship may not work. Like Holly, we see Felix progress from the much more casual outfit we initially see him wearing, which will be a dark jumper and Jeans, to smarter shirts to again represent how the two characters feel they need to adjust to be comfortable around one another.
For footwear, we want Felix to wear simple plain black trainers which again do not stand out, but conform to men's mainstream fashion but also are obviously male, so that the audience are clearly aware by not only the size of the shoes, but of there style, when they are watching footage of Felix, and when they are watching footage of Holly.

We decided that we would change Felix's name, as we felt that the name did not quite fit with the character we wanted, as we wanted a more common and ordinary name to fit in with our bland character that would not stand out as much as 'Felix.' This is why we decided to change it to 'Joe' as it seemed more fitting.