Research - Costume

I need to research into costume and by doing this, I will create a video with people who listeners want to see and can relate too. Some viewers may take inspiration from the bands style of clothing, especially in my genre where many bands have their own clothing lines, which makes costume an important aspect. Often, certain genres and bands have a specific look and I want to recreate this in my own video. The genre of my chosen band and song is Alternative or Modern Rock. I will research into my specific band and other similar genres to pinpoint this style.

You Me At Six:

Liquid Confidence

You Me At Six are a band of a similar genre and style to Young Guns.  The video for liquid confidence shows their style with casual checked/denim shirts with the lead singer in a plain white T-shirt with a hoodie and jacket. The style is very casual and fits with the current fashion of their age group 17-25's.

The video for A Day To Remember's 'All I Want' features 25 different bands from a similar genre. This video really shows off the style of this genre and we can see that T-shirts and casual shirts with slim fit or skinny jeans reoccurs many times. T-shirts are usually of a plain, neutral colour such as black/grey/white. A lot of these bands often wear hoodies or a causal jacket/coat. The colour scheme is mostly dark with blacks and greys probably being the most popular.

Weight Of The World

Quilted and leather jackets are also a trend that reoccurs. We can see both in Young Guns' video for 'Weight Of The World'. All the band member are wearing some form of black. They are all wearing similar outfits, a shirt with a jacket and skinny fit jeans.

'Honour Over Glory', 'Big Deal Clothing', and 'Rebel 8' are all examples of clothing lines that sponsor a number of bands in my specific genre. They supply these bands with their clothing so that they promote the line when the bands play shows etc. HxG and Big Deal are British based lines which mainly sponsor UK bands, whilst Rebel 8 is a US company which supports US bands.