Music Photoshoot Ideas

After meeting with our band (Are You a Wizard?), we went over their ideas for what they wanted and outlined some ideas that we thought would work well for the band's style and genre.
Are You a Wizard? wanted a shoot on location at a party, where they were sitting on the sofa drinking beer and eating pizza. Myself and Lucy weren't too sure on this idea as it may have been hard to get the party to look authentic and we also thought that there may be too much happening in the picture and draw attention away from the band. We managed to convince them of this and instead decided on having a picnic in a forest, possibly with some destruction in the background.
We decided that we wanted natural looking shots of the guys having a laugh in the forest as if Jess, Lucy and myself were not there. We thought about images facing the sun, looking up into the trees, looking down at the band, the members far or close to the camera, etc.
Other ideas we came up with was to have the band in a tight corner, and if we could get hold of a fish-eye lens, take a picture of them in the corner. This would give a weird visual effect as the area would appear larger than it actually is.
The studio shots are going to appear like a police line up, with their names alongside and their roles in the band. We are hoping to re-create this Blink 182 photoshoot, as this is the sort of style and genre the band play.



We were also thinking of playing around with an idea that we had previously seen in Eleanor Hardwick's work, where the models are "plugged" in to electrical products. Our idea was for the band to bring along their amps and guitars, and plug them in.



We thought about making the studio shoots simple, using tried and tested methods to show the audience what each member plays and trying to bring out their personality. We thought that having shots taken down the length of their instruments would be a sure fire way to acheive this; we could then put text along the instrument (such as member name, instrument, age, etc).
We also thought that group shots were a good idea to show chemistry within the band and show the connection between the four of them. We would acheive this by using different levels to alter the set-up and make the shots more interesting to look at. This would also help to give the photo a new angle due to the different levels.