Our artist of choice was a local band called TFI (The Fake Imposters) who consist of 4 members who write their own material as well as performing a few covers of other songs. They state that they follow a punk genre with the band's main instruments including a drum set, base and electric guitar.
Generally, the Punk genre consists of the following conventions:
- Low budget
- Naturalistic settings
- Focuses on the artist(s), e.g. close up shots
- Often a retro look
- Live performance/narrative-based structure
- Dietetic sounds for realism
- Several establishing shots of the band
- Black and white filters
- Strong views on anarchy and 'not following the system'
Their music follows this genre however the band's style doesn't as much for the members themselves dress a little too formal for it and could be easily confused with being an indie/rock band. Also the suits go against the convention of being unique as they look too uniformal, therefore we will re-design them to look more aesthetically appropriate for the genre.
TFI aren't a part of a Record Company or institution which is useful as it means we only need their direct permission to use their music, however it also means we must find one to represent them for our video, advertisement and digipak. The most local ones we found included Big Noise Records, Chandos Records, Schnitzel Records, Spear Havoc, Ram Records and Specky Records. We chose to use Spear Havoc as it was both professional looking and non mainstream. Also its website had a fairly punk-like theme to it which would work with our genre. We didn't want a mainstream company because that would be less accessible and not as appropriate for our small niche band.
-Joseph A. Luck-
--Peter Godwin-
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