Pre-production: Costumes research

The costume worn by particular bans and artist reflect what type of genre they are trying to portray to the audience. The Jacques band consist the 'Inde rock' genre. We decided to research and study couple of similar band that does the same genre, and pick out the similarties in between the different bands costume. I did a small collage of my research:

I found ou that the costume worn by bands relating to Indie Rock genre are 'roughed up' articles of clothing that are often old. the costume worn can be seen as representing a rebellious nature towards the mainstream fashion trends. For example all the members would wear some kind of skinny fitted trousers whether they are jeans or smart trousers. They will all have some form of jacket on and usually sport some 'tatty' vintage footwear (however it could vary from trainers to boots). Most of the band members costumes that are worn, they are usually never the same colour and never worn in the same style as the next members. This reveals that people associated with Indie Rock genre are comfortable and confident with expressing their individuality without going overboard. However, they do it in a simple way with variation of the same style, this further increases their 'cool' reputations as they don't try too hard to be something they are not. they all know that its going to be hot a sweaty so they adopt the attitude of "may as well wear the week and thin old t-shirt, am going to be sweaty which means i'm going to be smelly', this attitude represents a maverick lifestyle.

We all decided that most of Indoe Rock genre wear darker clothing that gives a 'hipster' look.

We then looked at what sort of cloting/costumes The Jacques typically wear. This is because after finding our sutable actors, we need to make sure that the costumes are spot on, so that it fits well with The Jaques iconography. We had to think very clear about portraying the artist and portraying the age of young teenagers.
The Jacques typically wore baggy tops, skinny jean, some sort of smart shoes, dark colour jackets and somtimes they wear some sort of funky hats.
For our final costume decision we decided to incororate dark costumes of skinny jeans, trainers/ converse instead of smart shoes (this is beacuse nowadays young teenagers prefer to wear trainsers as they are more confortable to walk and move around in, also they prefer to wear the recent fashion trend), baggy t-shirt or thin baggy jumpers and a hat for our lead singer.