Costume

The costume that we plan on using throughout our music promo is going to be conventional of the music genre. Stereotypical costume for indie-rock music tends to be smart-casual, generally involving casual clothing like t-shirts and jeans combined with smarter clothing like shirts, ties and smart shoes. Here are some examples of indie-rock bands that dress in the conventional manner which we plan on following:

Fun (left) are one indie-rock band that dress in the conventional indie-rock style. They always dress in this smart-casual way, whether out in public, or performing in their extremely popular music videos as well as when they perform on stage.

Another band that dress in this fashion are Two Door Cinema Club (right) who, as shown by the image, also dress in the conventional indie-rock way.

One band that break these conventions is Empire Of The Sun, a definite indie-rock band that use disjuncture to bring interest to their music videos. This is also shown by the way they dress as they also wear odd clothing when performing in order to be unique and break the stereotypical conventions of the genre.

Music Video - Empire Of The Sun

Live Performance - Empire Of The Sun

Our Costume:

For our music video, we plan on following the conventions of the genre and dressing in a smart-casual way.

We will require that all actors (aside from the girl in the photo) wear jeans or chinos in our music video. This is because these items of clothing are seen as fairly casual but at the same time they are not too casual to be seen as cheap.

For the top half of our costume in our music video, we will look at dressing in a fairly smart manner but not too smart as dressing in an office-style is not the conventional fashion for the indie-rock genre. We will perhaps look at wearing a smart shirt but with another piece of clothing to take the 'too smart' look away from it. Some examples of this dress sense would be to wear a plain t-shirt with a blazer, a shirt with a loose tie, a plain t-shirt with an open shirt over the top or we could wear a smart shirt with a neck-scarf to 'loosen up' the smart look a little.

The shoes that we plan on wearing have to be quite smart to fit in with this look, so trainers and running shoes are out of the question. The best shoes to wear would be smart black or brown shoes but for the narrative part of our music promo, this may not be possible as we do not want to mess up smart shoes so we may have to wear typically smart-casual shoes like converse or chinos. We could vary between smart 'office-type' shoes and the more smart-casual shoes in the narrative and performance.