2.
Our audience is Hipster/ Indie teenagers from ages 14-19. We choose this
age group because they are similar ages to that of our band members, and
is the style suited to our music genre. People of this age are more likely to
buy merchandise and go to concerts, and as a Hipster/ Indie band we plan
to have a lot of merchandise such as T-shirts, wristbands etc. If we are able
to we would also like to be able to play at Venues such as UEA,
Waterfront, the B2, and maybe if our band was to get more well known
then we would be able to travel to bigger venues in places such as London.
We are targeting a global audience, although I think to start with it would
begin with a more local appeal as people would not know our band.
3. How costume effects
them
Costume is important to the audience because it has effects on how
they then dress and perceive the band themselves. Often teenagers
look at fashion within bands for inspiration and they almost see
bands as their role models, so we want to wear things that reflect
modern day Indie/ Hipster fashion in a way that our fans would
enjoy and want to resemble our band members.
To find out what our fashion was to be we looked around the
city, and in Hipster/ Indie shops to find out what sort of look to go
for…
4. What costumes are we
using?
The girl The boy
In our music video The male member of
the female band our band has one
member as two style of clothes but
different outfits, the
changes slightly
main outfit is the Boy
London jumper, within the film. He
skinny jeans and starts off wearing
vans. just a polo, but ends
up in a jumper and
The other outfit is a coat too. He wears a
knitted jumper, a Batman belt, skinny
flowing skirt with jeans, and
tights and her hair up. sometimes a flat cap.
5. Why we chose them
We have chose this style because it reflects the Hipster/ Indie style that
teenagers wear these days. We chose for the girl to have two style of
clothing because we wanted to reflect her changing when they broke up
however the boy didn’t change because he wanted her back.
The clothes were picked out by looking at the fashion, and decided that
a lot of the Hipster and Indie styled teenagers wear the knitted jumpers
now.
We chose the boys outfit by looking at what some of the males wear,
however we wanted to keep the masculine look so decided not to have
the boy wear a knitted jumper too and instead wear a polo with a more
casual jumper over the top.
7. How and why we use them
Bed- we use a bed in the opening scene where the two band
members roll off each side of the bed. This shows them starting their
day, and by rolling opposite ways supports the opening line of ‘’We’re
always fighting and you never see’’ as a bed is a private thing as it is
indoors.
Moped key- We use the key when they are in a meadow to show
that he is taking her for a ride. We chose to place this here as it says
‘‘You hold the key’’ so therefore we decided to link lyrics and visuals
as Goodwin's theory explains.
8. How and why we use them
Guitar – We use a guitar in our performance scenes, this is because
it is the main instrument, and there is no meaning behind it.
Phone – We use a phone when the boy is looking through old
messages, once again we link visuals and lyrics here as there is a close
up on the phone as it says ‘’This will all work out’’
Umbrella- We use an umbrella in reference of ‘Singing in the rain’
by how she walks with the balloon, we chose this as an historic
intertexual reference along with our modern ones such as ‘Twilight’.
9. How and why we use them
Balloon- We use a balloon as a motif and it links with our lyrics. As
it says ‘’ We’re so far apart ‘’ Which we wrote onto the balloon but it
has the second meaning that the balloon is let go so obviously the
balloon is far from earth.
Props we didn’t use and why-
We didn’t use the underwater camera as we did not end up doing the
swimming pool scene due to weather and we did not have the time to
get to the pool with good light. We did not need a stereo or cake
ingredients in the end as we changed our ideas to new things such as
the beach.
