1. Costume Design
Band
To help create the costume of our band, we decided to look
at other bands in the same genre. This is so we can develop a
similar style to them as
possible. This is important
because genre covers not only
the sound of the music but also
how the musicians tend to look
and act.
We chose to look at Neck Deep,
Lower Than Atlantis and Basement.
This is because they are all popular
bands in the same genre of music. By
studying their style we can create a
costume for our band to wear. These
three photos show what each of
these bands typically wears.
From these photos, and some other found on the Internet,
we have gathered that the band
members tend to wear long
sleeved shirts (usually flannel),
unbuttoned; over a dark/grey
shirt or they will wear a large t-
shirt. They also tend to either
wear dark skinny jeans or light
coloured shorts with converse or vans of any colour. This is
what our band will be wearing in the performance shoots.
2. Protagonist
The costume of the protagonist will be created by looking at
clothing worn by fans of the bands we used for the band
style. It is important to get the right look for our protagonist,
as he is meant to be dressed the same
as we expect our target audience to be.
To get the right look for this, we
looked at several sources. Our first
source was our protagonist, as he is an
avid fan of all three bands. In the
photo he is shown wearing dark jeans
and a band shirt, a similar style of that
of the bands.
Our second source was through pictures on popular social
network site, Tumblr. Using this site,
we picked out images of people who
had tagged the bands in photos of
themselves. We gathered that the
majority of fans would wear band
merchandise to show support of the
bands. Many photos showed that the
fans would wear any type of bottom
half clothing. Many of them often
wore caps, usually from the same
brand.
We have gathered, from the research on tumblr and other
sites, that our protagonist shall wear a band shirt with an
unbuttoned long sleeve shirt over the top. He will wear
skinny jeans of any colour and dark vans.
3. Grandma
For the look of the grandma, we decided to go with the
typical old lady look
of a knitted cardigan
and a dress. The
clothes will be of a
lighter colour as this
contrasts with the
darker colours of the
bands clothes, as well
as being a popular
shade for older
people.
As for the make up of the grandma, we have watched several
instructional make up video tutorials on how to make
someone look much older. After watching these videos, we
have concluded that we will need latex, wax and several
shades of make up.
While watching the videos, we came to the thought of using
either dry shampoo; baby powder or white/grey hair spray
to achieve the white locks of a pensioner.
