Taking on board our research and planning posts from our conventions and artist image of the rock genre overall we have taken consideration into what appearance, costumes and props the artists/actors should be wearing when performing for the music video.
For James we suggested to him to use a hair gel to spike and hold up his short showing a kind of messy look and image a whole part of the "I don't care attitude" to show a rebellious side of the lead singer and guitarist.
We advised him to wear a graphic tee shirt of with colours of black and white as many images and concepts of rock overall related to this, as well as suggesting the idea of power as James is the lead singer of the band. Black super skinny jeans were also necessary for the role as James being quite tall compared than the others we took advantage of to amplify the image of power and dominance, making him wear this will give the impression of his tall height.
He is also seen wearing some leather converse shoes with a zipper attached along the side of the lace holes not only is it stylish and keeps to the image of rebellious but also is very fashionable and relatable as converse are a well known show company audiences will know of this and be encouraged to base their appearance of him.
With Charlie we asked him to keep the beard and long hair as when we saw him as when we put together our researching and planning towards an artists image we discovered that many rockers had the same and similar look as him. This is also upholding the "I don't care attitude" showing that they are being themselves and that is the sought of image we wish to show him as when it comes to his part and performance.
With Charlie wearing a plain black top we could create a sense of mystery in who this character might be to the eyes of the audience as well as being a new band we could therefore create tension to this. We also came to the conclusion from our research that many artists wore many types of jeans we therefore thought it suitable to suggest him to wear a pair of dark wash jeans.
He is also wearing a bracelet on his right arm showing that the band have a sense of style to the modern world and keeping within the trend of there suggested target audience.
Lastly for Navid we decided to mix up some of the elements of both James and Charlie's styles as well as creating a whole new original concept for the image. We had a combination of both Charlie's beard and James's hair to amplify the image of his rebellious side and the theories of rock I have just explained about them each.
He is wearing both a black tee shirt with a V neck cut out around his neck suggesting a sex appeal as he is showing flesh we suggested this as most of audiences we came across in finding demographic readings on youtube where in fact female. Not to mention he is also wearing both black trousers and shoes which gives the impression of a mystery towards the artist as you do not know what to expect from him
We also challenged the convention of the genre rock by asking him to wear a scarf which in turn helps to create both mystery and fashion again, making our artists image original in the fact that they stand out meaning audiences will recognise and define them.
In conclusion this will make our music video more realistic, referable and more relatable to the genre of rock so that audiences know where they are from, we also did create some original ideas and concepts to make the band stand out from others in order for audiences to know them.
