Branding a star fall out boy

By Toby Trew

CD covers

• All of fall out boys album covers have been very random but some have meaning behind they with the save rock and roll cover it is used to signify the change in musical styles.

But the infinity on high album cover has no reasoning behind it.

This makes there overall style seem more random and more unique compared with other bands.

image

• Fall out boy have a very indie and alternative look. There image fits in with the conventions of the bands music and the style that would be associated with the band.

News articles

• Fall out boy have been featured in many news articles in magazines and on websites such as g, rock sound and rolling stone. These magazines are useful for the band to be in because they are read by fans of fall out boys music style and so they would be more likely to read about them and listen to there music.

Music videos

• Some of there music video are very alternative in the way they use Mise en scene.

• They also use a lot of jump cuts pans and zooms in there music videos these are recurring shots used throughout all fall out boy music videos.

• The lighting used in there music videos is usually bright and is used to create an upbeat.

• With the editing of some of there music videos they make some of the colours throughout stand out to emphasis the importance of some props in there videos.