Skills Development

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 Friday 9th September 2022

LO: To research, plan and produce a product in response to a brief


Band Name: I have decided to name my band 'The Broken Puppets', with the idea in mind of creating a dark and alternative style of music with unique and creepy sounding songs. I had the idea of creating an album called Pulling Strings, which could have many different links and meanings, and the cover will be a bleeding heart that is partly cracked and clearly very broken being attached to some strings, however you can see that controlling the strings is a puppet itself which is ironic as normally the puppet would be the one being controlled. I think that the dark and decrepit puppet controlling the heart is an idea that people who listen to alternative music would find intriguing.

Genre conventions: My band is going to be an alternative band with three members, one of which is a singer and the other two are going to be instrument players. For the style of clothing that would be worn, I would style them in dark colours, dressed as the puppets or more like pierrots themselves, with intense, over the top makeup and strings to create the characters of puppets. The main singer would be a pale pierrot, wearing white puppet clothes and they would all be wearing makeup like shown below: 

For an album cover, I would use black and other dark colours, perhaps on a stage where puppets and pierrots would normally perform and make it darker with photoshop and perhaps add a filter to intensify the melancholy feel. I think making the puppet that would be included within the album cover completely black and white and everything else included in the images would be too however I would make sure to make the one thing that has colour the heart, which would be a deep shade in itself, like it is bleeding away and dying too.     


Band Name: The Broken Puppets

Album Name: Pulling Strings

Genre: Alternative




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