typical conventions of fall out boy\emo music

Fall out boys music, image and persona has changed over the past 8 years, the typical emo convention has been fluent throughout.

For example in one of the bands first music videos 'a little less sixteen candles a little

more touch me' the band wear dark colored tight clothes,this is a typical convention

of emo bands and has almost became a calling card for the band.

The band also experiment with unique, individual hairstyles, i believe they do this to get a reaction out of people and to cause controversy, which after all is what emo is all about.

The band has changed quiet a lot the past few years, they seem to have grown in maturity.

band image

Band Image Hairstyles-Traditional band hairstyles are long and uncontrolled, however pop/punk hair is the exception, most styles very in thickness and length but normally consist of choppy layers, a sweeping fringe and the odd spike or two, these elements are sometimes combined with brightly coloured highlights to give a rebellious look to the style.

Body-Although there is no rule on what to wear for the pop/punk genre I believe that plain clothes with not much colour in them would suit best, such as black, white, grey, dark purple etc these should be the primary colours and the more brighter colours such as red, blue, yellow etc should ideally be secondary colours.

Jeans- In most cases dark skinny jeans would be the obvious choice however there are alternatives to these such as coloured or patterned skinny jeans as well as baggy jeans or possibly shorts.

Shoes-Most band wear well known alternative makes such as converse, vans, DC’s etc, these makes would probably work best for creating an alternative look

9 frame analysis

Here is a close up shot of the Fall Out Boy bassist.

Here is a picture of the Fall Out Boy fans lining up for a the Fall Out Boy gig. The band are dropping water balloons onto the crowd.

Here is a two shot showing the drummer and a street performer. This shot is used to show the drummer annoying the street performer. This links in with the song I Don't Care.

Here is a shallow focus of the lead singer. This is done on the chorus to mainly show the band the singer actually singing the song.

Here shows lead singer patrick stump in a medium shot ,dressed in a casual wear whilst walking down a high street, the shot has a link to that of an establishing shot to show what i believe to be a new york city.

this is a close up of the back of the drummers head, we can also see the crowd in the shot, in my opinion this shot was done to show the crowd more than anything. This shot used a shallow focus

this shot is a medium close up of the drummer from the band, in the shot we can see his drums and some of the crowd in the background.

this shot is on a slight angle looking up at one of the band members, possibly to give the band member a sense of power.

This is a medium shot of one of the band members, there is also a lot of background which shows the scene.

shot count task

there were 238 shots in the music video for the take over,the breaks over by fall out boy.Most shots used were medium shots with the occasional close up,the shots were edited together quickly and sharply to create a edgy effect to fit in with the guitar riff of the song.

lip sync task

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