Star image analysis 1: Sleeping with sirens

Sleeping with sirens are an American post-hardcore band who were formed in 2009 who have changed and developed during their music career. There are 5 current members of the band, and 7 former members of Sleeping with sirens. The bass, guitarist, drummer and singer all changed in 2009 and were replaced by the current members, Kellin Quinn, Justin Hills, Gabe Barham and Jack Fowler. And more recently in 2013, Nick Martin replaced Jesse Lawson in the rhythm guitarist.

Sleeping with sirens share the same genre with Pierce the Veil being in the American post-hardcore genre and started to be successful in the American market, and soon after spread worldwide as they are currently doing a world tour.

Each band member pulls a face in their photoshoot, and the audience sees this as them enjoying themselves and not too concerned about their image.

Their style is fitting to the genre, as they are wearing dark clothes, have tattoos and piercings, which are shown clearly during their photoshoot. This is showing their rebelliousness which appeals to their target audience of teenagers. The lead singer in the middle is also fulfilling the stereotype star image of the post hardcore genre by wearing a hat, having long hair, wearing all black and having tattoos. This would then appeal their target audience who aspire to be them, who also have tattoos and piercings.

Like Sleeping with Sirens, we asked to do a photoshoot of Perfect Fall with their instruments as both artists are organic bands. Sleeping with sirens have a photoshoot performing whereas the picture we took of Perfect Fall was just them holding their insrtuments. I have also noticed that in the images of artists with their instruments they do not directly look at the camera, whereas without the instruments they usually do.  

When doing the photoshoot with Perfect Fall, we wanted to recreate our artists to fit in to the genre. Perfect Fall pose similar to Sleeping with sirens, showing that they look professional and can compete in this market. Bennie from Perfect Fall also wears and has a similar coat to Kellin Quinn and they both pull it off in the same style with the collar up. This shows that the fashion style between the two bands is similar, and we have re-created the look and put it into a new and upcoming band.