Possible ideas for the Bands appearance

Bands appearance:

Here I am going to talk about the possible ideas of the bands appearance. We want the band to look from the genre of grunge but at the same time we want them to look normal to show there is really no difference between people who like this the of music compared to someone who likes R&B, showing that the only reason why they are different is because they are not understood and are treated as outcasts so that is what they will become.

Things that the band members should have:

1. Possible piercings.
2. Some tattoos (not too extreme).
3. Love of the music genre (e.g. tops and other things promoting their band or other bands).
4. Some sense of grunge dress sense (maybe coat or shoes).
5. every one has been through pain and everyone of them has been or is still not understood.
6. Dark hair and longer than normal if possible.

This is what grunge used to loo like for the band Seether:

Notice the long hair and unusually dark clothing and especial the unique hair styles which each of them have. They all want to express themselves in different ways in order to give themselves their own identity. However since then the band has moved forward with the times and has adapted new styles with this. They have attempted to get their selves out of the depressive feel of music and now have a more upbeat turn to their music.

They now appear at concerts looking like this:

They have changed with the times and now look more acceptable within society and this is because they are fed up with setting a negative stereotype for the genre of grudge. Many of the band member have been though troubles but have seen the brighter side of life and now produce music not for people who want to be depressed but for people who wan a change in their life. With their change of appearance their style of music and meaning has also changed.

This is what we want our band to follow, setting new trends instead of adhering to old ones. The photo of Seether above is what we are going to base our appearance of our band members on. This is because we have a similar meaning in our music as they do making them ideal for what we want to do. 

Production Log

This is the production log for my band, Tear Down. The band focuses on the genre of post- Grunge and alternative, which makes my group’s job hard to find the specific element of post-grunge. It is difficult since it is such a niche genre and audience to the band but does open up the possibilities of new ideas.

Plans for Location:

For the location my group and me plan on setting up a dark area, which is lit by candlelight giving it the lowest key lighting possible. We have a friend with a shed that we can use in order to make some of the video in which our band members will feature. We will not show anything else happening in this scene except for the band members playing their instruments and the lead singer singing and pro forming other actions such as looking at old photos and enjoying his solitude. We need to find a wooded area where we can shoot individual scenes just showing the lead singer. This is because we chosen the song based on the backstory and past of our lead singer therefore it technically is his story.

Costumes:

We have had a real struggle when dealing with the costume design since it is such a niche genre the band does not seem to wear to "grungy “of an outfit but do not dress as casual as someone doing a here such as R&B.  Means we have to get the happy medium between the two. We have decided on going with the ideal black theme so this includes hints such as leather jackets and trench coats but not going any further with the jet black hair or anything along them lines. In a way we have attempted to make the band loo normal but make their style of music different in hope that others will not judge the genre based on a certain few with the black and the constantly depressed feel to the music.

Actors:

We had some trouble again with the actors since many of the people who were originally willing to help me have decided to back out. This has caused problems and has made us result to using one of my friends from outside of the school. This will cause problems if we need to use any of the equipment, which cannot be taken, out of the school since I cannot bring people in who do not attend the school. We have only decided to go with three people within the band in order to save the time of not only us but also others who are going to be used within the scene. We have accepted the help of a friend who is also studying media in return that we help him and we have also enlisted my friend from outside of the school, we have decided that in order to build up numbers of the "band" I am going to be placed within the sequence as well.

When it comes to the actors we have attempted to keep the feel of grunge by keeping the long hair of one friend and the piecing’s of another, as of me I will need to dress myself up to look the part in order not to stick out within the video. We nee to do one job and that is we need to convince the audience that we can preform the part as well as an actually band.

Checklist:

We haven't got many things for our checklist but what we have got is not very major and can be acquired with ease.

1  All band members

2  A garage to place our scene

3  Some "grungy" and black clothing

4  Possibly some black hairspray and fake piercings 

5  Some possible wooded area locations to acquire 

Music Video analysis (Same genre) Staind-Outside

The genre is post grunge which i the genre which me and my group are studying making it the prime type of video for me to analyse.

The reason i have chosen this video is because when watching the video it has a lot of meaning behind it and is a very unusual story but the video has been thought about long and hard and has a unusual concept.


I am analysing this video with goodwins theories in order to get a true representation of the video.

Within this video the representation of the genre of post grunge is very prominent. This is due to a multiple of things from the lighting within the scene to the colours of the outfits and the lyrics in the song. The lighting within the music video is very dark and many of the colours are dark or even black. At (1:10) the background to the lead singer is dark and shady. The lead singer has half of his face presented to the light and the other half in the dark and the same is happening in the background showing the possible connotation from the dark to the light and giving the possible representation of the different sides to his, the bands and the audience.

At (1:19) the teenager who is attempting to watch the band is peering through a hole in the wall, which is blocking him from the band and the audience. This applies to Goodwin’s theory of voyeurism since he is watching them where they cannot see him but he is "spying" upon them. This could connote that the teenager is alone and in need of someone or something to associate with and the band could be the gap that divides he teenager with society. He is misunderstood and needs someone to understand him. The lyrics "I’m on the outside, I’m looking in" connotes the fact that he is looking upon them wanted to get inside or using the term tearing the walls down since they are the only thing which is holding him back from the concert or "reality".

Throughout the video the teenager attempts to gain entry into the concert trig a multiple of ways. He first begins to attempt to dig his way in but then results in attempting to build his way in. The wall could symbolise the divide between him and everyone else and how no one seems to understand him or be on his "side”. He is trying to break free from this view and is trying to become a normal teenager where he can associate with others and do normal things a teenager would. He eventually makes it over the wall only to find the other side to be exactly the same connoting that even though he made it over that wall or that separate he will still be the same inside which changes nothing.

Within the video the colours are portrayed as very dark and with a very low contrast making them very dark and give the sense of grunge. It has a mixture of low key and high key lighting highlighting the good points and the bad. The colours give the sense, feel, and atmosphere of the post grunge genre making this video much like the one we hoe to make and we will carry a lot of the characteristics of this video onto our own video in order to give it a traditional post grunge feel.

The video is narrative based but widely surrounds the band at the same time. The story plot has been mentioned but largely focuses on the band since the lead singers appearance is a very large part of what the band is. Every band has their selling point and Staind’s selling point happens to be their relatable lyrics and story and the appearance of the lead singer, setting and band.

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Audience
Video's connection to lyrics - eg, whats being sung is there any representation in the video?
talk about the bands appearance.