Our Actors

For our music video me and my group member Kira both starred as lead actresses. The impression given off is that we are the artist of the song playing, our band name being KP&IZ. We didn’t want to include any male actors as in most EDM videos they have the dominant roles and the females are their  supporting actresses, this includes them being sexualised/used to show them off for visual purposes. We wanted to break that trend and have young girls be represented in a non sexual way and also in a dominant way without the need for a male to make our music video good.

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