Fashion of the band

This is post is to show the fashion sense of one of our band members in particular, Georgia. She has previously been spotted in Leicester City Centre as being an iconic fashionable teenager by the Leicester Mercury fashion reporters. The article talks about how Georgia's fashion sense is outstanding but this is not due to expensive prices as she mentions more than once about how she shops around for bargains in places such as fashion charity shops, vintage fairs and handmade clothing stores. This is inspiring for our band's image as it shows that not everyone has to be extremely rich in order to keep up with fashion trends. Georgia will be an iconic figure in our band without a doubt, partly due to her being the only girl member of the band but also her fashion sense will be inspirational to teenagers and young adults who listen to this style of music.

Below is a photo taken of her image and article down the side of the Leicester Mercury newspaper back in April 2011.

Research and Planning - Images

Here I have taken images of my fellow group members, this is to show our progress as a group through images rather than plain blog posts. These photos are taken in one of the computer rooms in our Media Studies department at Lutterworth College. Examples of these images show: Meg drawing images for the storyboard; Joe posting on Blogger; Harry showing everyone his Macbook on which he blogs his own posts and will edit some of our clips on once we have finished filming; and myself (Jess) scripting the storyboard ready to be drawn up onto the real version.

Examples of other texts- "The clocks go back"

Although this is a very simple video of a clocks hands going backwards, I think it is quite a good idea to include into our video for the line "One Night In October, the clocks go back, and she attacks me oh". We could easily use it because we'd just have to make to hands of the clock go anticlockwise and use a close up shot to elimintate the risk of seeing the persons hand turning it. To make it look more interesting and not a boring shot that would appear to last a while, I think we could fast forward it and have the shot last between one and two seconds.

Examples of other texts - The Maccabees

This video is inspiring for our disjuncture ideas for our own music video; for example the obvious connection of illustration with the random objects being pushed together as a 'First Love' (hence the title of the song). I think this type of disjuncture works really well, as it is almost too obvious to make any sense; due to our song not being a typical illustrative style we will only include aspects of illustration within disjuncture. With the use of random objects in this video, we will take ideas and inspiration from the style of this video but convert it into our own original ideas - this is to ensure that our video is not compared too closely to another existing official music video.

Here are some screenshots from this video that demonstrate what we mean when we say random objects:

Objects we have considered using within our video consist of;

- Costumes e.g. banana suit, hawaiian dress

- Pots and pans hanging from ropes (in the style of Little Comets)

- Masks

- Toys e.g. hobby horse, giant teddybear

- Pool inflatables

All of these objects will help to make our music video memorable and interesting for the audience to watch; this is a typical skill for disjuncture videos to have which is why it is important to include as many random ideas as possible. From researching other music videos we have learnt as a group to take ideas from existing bands, but not copy them in a obvious way - simply take inspiration and express it in a different way to reflect our band's own individual personality and style.

Stop Motion Experimenting

Here, i've created a stop motion video just to see what is possible for our music video, also, this could be used for further inspiration in our video.

Band Styling - Steve

We have each chosen a member of the band to style, my chosen member was Steve. I have decided that from the band photo shoots, Will looks best suited to wearing a shirt, Georgia wearing a vest, Steve and Lewis both wearing t-shirts.

As a group we decided that it is conventional of this genre for the members to all wear dark/black jeans except one member, such as in Foals:

 therefore I am going to ask Steve to wear black jeans/his dark jeans he wears and possibly get Georgia to be the person who doesn't wear black/dark trousers.

As part of the photo shoots, we previously asked Steve to wear his black hooded zipped jacket, and we think that this works with the cords tied together either zipped or unzipped.

Also, we prefer Steve to wear a t-shirt, opposed to a shirt as it suits the band better to have a "cheeky" lead singer, therefore less well presented and less formal. We want Steve to have graphics and designs on his t-shirt, but obviously we cannot have them with brands on, so maybe an image or just a design as he does in the picture below:

Some shots also show Steve wearing a hat, and this suits the genre well, so I will keep that as an optional accessory for Steve.

Here are some people that dress similarly to how i wish Steve to look:

Band Styling- Lewis

(Lewis is far right on both images)

Lewis is going to either be our second guitarist or bass player (this depends on what instruments we can acquire at the time of shooting). Like the rest of the males in the band, Lewis' style is quite relaxed, baggy and also full of colour- this colourfulness helps to portray the fun and energy of the band.

What's distinguishable about Lewis' style when compared to the rest of the band members is his array of hats, which funnily enough was unintentional but something we're definitely going to keep. During both photo shoots we asked him to wear black jeans and a coloured t-shirt with a jacket- he turned up in these and a hat, and this then happened again for the second time. So a bobble hat has now been adopted as part of how Lewis dresses and we will continue to use this through out the video.

So for the video shoot, Lewis will be wearing black jeans, like the other male band members, a coloured t-shirt which I would like to be quite plain in design if possible, and a baggy hooded jumper, as well as his infamous bobble hat which will also be full of colour. When it comes to shoes I think Lewis will be wearing either branded trainers or shoes, more than likely Nike.

Ideas of what Lewis could wear in the video shoot:
  


Similar style that we could take inspiration from is The Maccabees lead singer Orlando Weeks: