Costume, Props and Hair

Costume, Props and Hair

Costume
The costume that our band members will be wearing, although varied from each other, will follow one central style. This style will be particularly inspired by the other bands we researched in the beginning (Walk The Moon and Chvrches).

One style in particular that will be common with our band is the clothing choice of double denim. We feel this style of clothing will be suitable for our indie band as it is a common convention within the indie pop genre and in general with indie bands (as seen with the arctic monkeys on the right).

As well as using the style of double denim we will use a common convention for indie pop bands of colour, by using bright colours in the costume itself we feel that it puts our band in with other indie bands already out there and makes them stand out from the sea of black, white and sepia bands that are popular within the indie market at the moment.

(Right, Walk the Moon with bright coloured clothing)
In terms of specific items of clothing that the costume for our band will entail, we have looked to current indie bands and fashion trends for inspiration.
From this research we discovered that skinny jeans would be an item of clothing that we would like to use due to its popularity in both of these areas. As stated before within the costume section, these skinny jeans could be any colour due to the bright colour style we would use, but also allows dark colours with hitting the double denim style.

Hair
The hair of our band members will play a fairly major part in their appearance as a key part of the costume. In general the band members will have fairly long natural hairstyles that don't seem to be maintained very well as seen quite commonly within indie bands such as The Kooks. With the band consisting of three male members, two of them will have just mid length scruffy hair and the other will have naturally curly hair.
As far the female member of our group, she will again just have a natural hairstyle such as the one on the picture below.

The hair colour of the band members will be very plain with the majority having their hair a very dark brown or a complete died jet black colour. However for diversity within the band one of the males with scruffy hair will also have a ginger coloured tint within his hair such as the one seen in the picture of The Kooks above.





Props
As another part of the appearance of our band, we have decided to use some props, some of these are typical of an indie pop band and some are not so typical.

The first prop our band will have is an acoustic guitar, although acoustic guitars are a common prop within indie bands, ours will be brightly coloured to follow the theme of the band throughout and the conventions of an indie pop band. As well as the guitar being brightly coloured, it has a unique twist of LED lights around the rim of it making it again much brighter, much more effective for concerts in the dark and making the band more recognisable.

Another prop that our band will have will be a giant train carriage, this will work effectively as a stage prop for "The Homecoming" tour as the train symbolises a method of transportation bringing them back home. This prop will be near full size so that the band can use it to perform within for some performances of their songs but also creates a great stage prop center piece.