Publicity shots ideas

In the production meeting in which we discussed our ideas for the album cover and website design, we made these notes:

We ended this meeting by briefly discussing ideas for publicity shots of the band.

Because our track is fun and upbeat, and our idea for the music video includes playful and fun moments, we are constructing our band image to fit with this, and publicity shots are an essential part of that. 

These were our ideas that we brought to the next production meeting:

These were my ideas. The picture in the top left hand corner shows the lead singer in a typical serious rock/pop star pose, oblivious to the band goofing off in the background. The one underneath is more serious, but the band would maybe be smiling or our colouring/lighting/clothing choices would give it a light-hearted, fun feel. The top right hand drawing is supposed to have the other band members in it, too, dressing up the confused-looking lead in clothes and accessories from all the different eras costumes, linking with our music video.

Brandon's suggestions include the band members giving each other piggy backs, the lead boy and girl from the music video with their arms around each other, and the band members carrying the lead as shown in the bottom left drawing

Chrystal's suggestions - lead in the centre, with other band members poking into the shot, making silly faces (first drawing), band members all playing the wrong instruments, confused (second drawing), band members lifting up instruments crazily (third drawing)

Juliette's suggestions (explained on the drawings)

We didn't make final confirmations as to what ideas we want to use specifically, but we did decide that some ideas we liked the best were the band members wrapping the lead in microphone wire, dressing him up in the eras clothing, "taking a selfie", giving each other piggy backs, and the lead serious in the foreground with the band members messing around in the background.

5 Seconds of Summer's photoshoots were a major influence when coming up with our ideas:

We are influenced by the way they are posed as messing around and having fun, giving an impression of the band's personality, and making them accessible to fans of a similar age or slightly younger who then don't have to take them so seriously. The lighting and colouring are also influential, because it isn't too high-key or overly bright and vibrant, but still bright enough to convey that sense of light-heartedness that we are aiming for.

What we did decide officially was that our publicity shots will include promo shots for the music video (to promote the video and the single), behind the scenes promo shots, with the girl from the music video included in these as well as the band members, and promo shots for the band and their album as a whole.