Clothing

The song choice for our music video is in the indie genre so the clothing that our musicians wear is important to how they will be perceived by their fans, fashion is a big part of the indie genre so we plan to make our band members look stylish whilst still fitting the indie genre. We want our lead singer to wear a harrington jacket and we want it to come across as though it would be his signature thing to wear, we are going to put all of the band members in skinny jeans, Tom in a plain t-shirt and Tom Mcmahon in a shirt.

It is harder to dress boys and give them more than a couple of outfit changes, we think, because you can easily put girls in a skirt or a dress or shorts but boys' clothing genereally centers around trousers and a t-shirt. Because of this we're going to add accessories such as Ray-Bans and, in Joe's case, a hoop in his ear, this will compliment the clothes more and give us more outfit changes. We kind of want a 60's element to the fashion side of our music video so we've been looking at mod clothing, this is also convenient for us because Joe tends to dress like this anyway so he can help us with the outfit choices.

We have looked at the clothes that are worn in a lot of bands in the indie genre, we looked, obviously, at Foster the People but decided that we didnt want to copy what they were wearing, we want every aspect of our music video to be completely different to the video that already exists for 'Pumped Up Kicks,' we also looked at Arctic Monkeys, Stone Roses, The Courteeners and mods in the 60's, we think that a combination of all of these clothes will be perfect for our band. We just want to take pieces from each band that we have looked at and create our own signature look.

Here are some screenshots from music videos, we actually looked at a Foster the People video and saw that they're quite casual when they perform, wearing t-shirts and jeans, but when they arent performing they dress slightly smarter. Because our video is performance based we want to encapsulate the casual clothing that they wear when they are performing. Many bands take the casual approach when they are performing - especially drummers - for comfort and ease.