Generic Features of our genre

Our band is in the folk/indie/ska genre so we are going to have to find generic props including costume and instruments. The band wear costume which is in these genres so they include: trilby hats, shirts (checkered and similar) and for the girls- dresses, shorts, tops and leggings. The males hairstyles range from scruffy long and short hair and the females usually have layered and quite messy hair too.

The costume the band will wear is in an earlier post I have posted on this blog, the link being: http://caroline-a2media.blogspot.com/2009/09/initial-character-profiles.html

The costume are going to be our main focus as we want the actors to wear what we have chosen to represent the band more accurately. We also chose actors that were already wearing this kind of costume and have these kind of hairstyles so it is more efficient with it comes to filming and less time will be spent on getting the characters appearances correct. Furthermore, the costume is typical for this genre, with nice but scruffy clothes from shops such as Topman/Topshop adnd H&M.

A main aspect of our target audience research we have predicted is, that the audience will have a very similar dress sense to the costume used in our music video. The use of contemporary and popular costume will increase identification between the band and audience. Also it seems to reinforce how this style is a very popular and commonly seen style to adapt to and have, it is following the fashion trend rather than setting another unique trend.

Pictures found from hairfinder.com

We will also be having instruments for the actors to hold whilst in our locations as often indie/folk bands have their instruments with them. Some examples include: Paolo Nutini (Candy music video) and Noah and the Whale.