Research - The Band & Song Choice

Hey There Delilah - Plain White T's

The chosen Song that we are going to create a music video to and a variety of posters, CD covers, magazines etc is Hey There Delilah by the Plain White T's.

There are many reasons why we decided to choose this song to make a music video, the first being the popularity of the genre/sub genre, the song and the style of the band are incorporated in a variety of genres, this being "Alternate Rock", "Indie" and mainly "Indie/Rock". This will allow our audience to be of a wide range. This will also help increase the popularity of the bands songs as they are appealing to a wider audience.

The second reason being that the type of fashion style this band has attracts a very wide range audience. 

Here the band has mainly fringes, reasonably tight dark coloured jeans with rips, this show a rebellious attitude, all of the members of the band are wearing either jean or a leather type jacket, with a dark coloured t-shirt underneath.   

The band members except 1 are all looking directly at the audience therefore breaking down the fourth wall between the reader and the band members, this help the reader connect properly with the image.

Although you are unable to see the instruments that this band plays I know that the instruments all fit into this "Indie/Rock" genre.

Me and my group know a lot about "Rock/Indie" genre therefore this genre will be easy for us to style in fashion, accessories and instruments. With the band members the gaze theory will also be applied throughout this project as this is a real easy way to catch the female attention, when making a video with a boy band. 

The last reason is that another member of our team are able to play the song "Hey There Delilah" on the guitar, this will be and is a massive advantage when filming the music video, this will make the video look that more realistic.

Below I have placed all of the Plain White T's albums covers back and front, I feel that this will help me when designing my first sketches for my album cover.

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2010

These are all the albums from throughout the years, you can see how the front album photograph has changed increasingly, this normally means that the type of music they play would have changed as well wither getting a bit darker or get more cheerfull. Depending on how the band feel as a whole shows through the music that they produce.