Real Band Social Media Feeds

To ensure that our band's social media feed is accurate and mimics real life versions, we have to analyse their conventions and consider what elements we can replicate in the middle of the countryside. The social media account that I looked at include:

• The Wallows
• Wombats
• Flyte
• Sports Team
• Scouting for Girls
• Plastic Mermaids
• Easy Life

They are all part of the indie pop genre and are bands, this is integral as band images are different from solo artists in terms of composition and captions.  

Promotional:

Genius are a company that pull together information about songs through their website and interviews with bands.

These videos are quite common for artists to do now, alongside Elle's 'Song Association Game'. I think it would be fun for us to recreate, however it is not as easy to achieve as other promotional posts.

Similar to the back panel of a digipak, posts about the album release and the songs that are on it are common for bands to post in the run up to their release.  

While this post is to announce the release of their new track, I feel like the image is something we can easily recreate with our band as it is quite quirky and fits a similar aesthetic.

Most bands that I have researched post about a set list for a concert. This is something we can easily recreate and enhance the idea that they are a real band. 

Normal Images:

The use of a fish eye lens is something that I would like to replicate as it is something we used throughout our music video and I think it compliments the band nicely. While we wouldn't replicate the background of the image, the effect is something easily achievable. 

Similar to the image below this, I like the look that the photos were taken on a disposable camera, it makes it feel more home-made and personal especially because of the comfy background in a bedroom.

Additionally, the captions that this band have create a nice personal vibe as an audience and makes them feel like real people - it does not sound uncomfortable, as though a record label has written it for them

This is one of my favourite images because of all of the colours and the ice cream. As you slide across the images on this post you see the other band members interacting with and eating the ice cream. This allows for each band member to have an individual image and moment of personality while involving each band member in the post. 

Other:

In each of these photos they use different editing techniques or photo composition techniques that I find interesting and that are easy to recreate. They are fun and unique and I feel as though they suit the aesthetic of the band and will include visual interest and variation to our Instagram feed.