FORGET (2019)
Starring Fae Jordan and Dev Hegro
A music video following a love story between two girls in the transitional phase between the nineteen fifties and sixties. Tackling themes of repression, conversion, and lost love.
ABOUT
The fifties are coming to a close and the sixties is rearing its head around the corner. A girl from a conservative background notices the new wave, outlandish style of her classmate and becomes infatuated with her. They fall slowly but surely in love with one another. Until one day, after a fight with her mother; this mysterious love disappears only to return a shallow, conservative version of the lively and liberated girl she once was.
Forget is a narrative based music video made in 2019, collaborating with the music students in our cohort who had just recently released their new single; "Forget".
TEAM MEMBERS
Actor
FAE JORDAN
Fae plays the protagonist in this music video, a girl from a conservative background who learns to embrace a more liberated version of herself through romance.
FINAL CUT
Costuming
I was in charge of costuming for this production and I chose to dress the characters to represent shifting ideologies.
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At the beginning of the narrative Fae's character dresses in a blue, polka dot 50s style dress with a white turtleneck underneath in order to preserve a conservative image. This juxtaposes Devs character, adorned in bright colours and streamline silhouette; representing the changing era and new fashions of the 60s.
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Over the course of the narrative Fae comes out of her shell and consequently changes her style, becoming more modern, liberated, and almost bohemian as to mirror Dev's character. This shift in self presentation represents personal growth, how Fae has changed as a character by going forwards.
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In the final scene Fae is wearing a fitted denim dress with bell sleeves, and Dev is wearing a blue and white gingham 1950s style fit-and-flare dress. The characters essentially swap costumes in the first and final scenes of the story, as it is implied that Dev has undergone a sort of conversion therapy and this is presented through her costume that mirrors Fae in the opening scene. She has changed as a character, only unlike Fae she has gone backwards, becoming a shell of the lively, liberated girl she once was.
