Diary Entry #8: Finding the Actors

The band
When it came to deciding who was going to be in our music video we already had some people in mind. Someone I know asked if their band could be the band to do the live performance in the music video. Here are some of the tweets:

Morgan's band is called This Ship is Ours who define themselves as a metalcore band with musical influences of bands that are of a similar genre to Issues. As Morgan's band and Issues are in roughly the same genre category, their appearance are likely to be consistent with the way that we want the band portrayed in the music video. Here is an example of the type of music that This Ship Is Ours make:

The image of the band is also essential. We want the band to look like a typical rock/metal band to attract the correct types of audiences to the music video. Most rock bands wear other bands shirts, sometimes shirts that influence that bands music, skinny jeans and converse. This Ship Is Ours fit into this category naturally, so when it comes to costume and props, there won't be any need to wear anything fancy or to spend money of certain clothes. This is the typical way that we want the band portrayed in the music video:

 

The actors

Also, the two people in the music video who are going to be the characters in the narrative is Jess' sister and her boyfriend. Jess' sister is doing performing arts at University so this will be the best opportunity for us as we'll have people who can actually act in the music video, making it look real and not like an amateur music video. We want it too look as real as possible.