Planning: Costume, Hair and Make-up - Choices and Symbolism

In order for us to make the most effective music video possible, we must plan certain aspects of the mise-en-scene in advance, and also include some meaning behind them.
Costumes
For the costumes, we have opted for Sarah to wear a series of dresses, as they will enhance her femininity and allow our target audience to better relate to her. Thus far, we have two ideas we could potentially include. This first is a floral dress, preferably of a blue or purple colour.This will allow the actress to stand out from the remainder of the frame and become the sole focus of the shot. Additionally, the flowers on the dress we suggest a delicacy and fragility in our actress, which is one aspect of the character Sarah will be playing. An image of this style of dress is shown below.

The next idea was for Sarah to wear a white lace dress. We thought this would be appropriate as white lace suggests purity, innocence and new beginnings. We feel this would match our interpretation of the song and will thus look to include it. Below is an image of the style of dress we are hoping to include.

In terms of our male character's attire, we feel that including a t-shirt with a skull or skeletal design, which would infer death, may be effective. Below is an image of the type of t-shirt we could potentially use.

Hair
As our video will be film in open spaces, we feel that it would be best to have Sarah's hair down, and either wavy or straight. This would mean that the hair would move with the wind, and mirror the emotional scenes from films such as Pocahontas. Below is a gif showing what we will try to replicate.

Make-up
As we do not want to detract attention away from the emotion portrayed by our actress, we will probably use a more natural style of make-up, as shown in the image below. From the picture, it is clear that her facial expression are not overshadowed by her make-up and that her eyes, the most expressive part of the face, are emphasized by the use of moderately applied mascara and eye-liner.