My Chosen Band

Band Name: The Requiem

Album Name: Memorium 

For my band they are going to be a twosome who specialize in the indie/alternative music genre.  I have chosen the name 'The Requiem' because first of all I liked the sound of it; and it sounds like something that would be a real band name. Also it just means 'any piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person or persons', so even though it has a fairly morbid meaning I want it to mean that they are music reborn in a way. The traditional ways of music have gone and they are there to play at the memorial with their new sound. I have created this name using a random band name generator (I had used the Wikipedia random article technique, however I found nothing that really sparked any imagination so I used the random band name generator just to spark some ideas and develop them myself).  Their style that I have already had in mind is going to be very casual and however with hints of elegance and maturity. I'm going to style my models in this kind of way, I want to create a kind of effortless feel to their persona. Their music would be quite dark and stripped down (an example of this would be Warpaint, as I find their music style to be very laid back and almost like they are not even playing the instruments, like some kind of unknown source is creating it for them), therefore I would like to style my models in such a way that you can see their genre and music style comes through and without actually having to read the article, you know straight away what they are all about. Also to help me get this across as well in my magazine, I would like to take the pictures in a certain way to accentuate this feature of their indie/alternative genre. For example I would like to keep the pictures quite dark and almost moody because this is what I feel like my magazine will be like in it's general genre, I also want my models to be dressed in dark clothing because yet again I want to get across this moody image.
For the photographs, my main idea I have had is that I will keep one main soft light on my models and every other light will be turned off, this is something I am yet to actually test out but when I come to take my pictures I would like to give this method a try because if it works then it will really just add a certain style to my magazine and also the article.

My main band influences that I have though of are Yuck, Warpaint and Slow Club. This is because these are bands that I listen to myself and I love all of their unique styles and I would like to incorporate their style and musical elements into my band when they are being photographed. Also I would like my band to be like Slow Club in its set up, by having one boy and one girl as the geniuses behind the music. This is because it is easier to get the dynamics from both of these genders. Also I would like to do this because it creates a nice even image for both gender groups of the audience to read and look at. Both members of the band will appear in my magazine, in all of the pictures that I am planning to take.