experimenting with polaroids

When I re searched into other bands with a similar style to ours and similar genre. I looked on their instagrams in which I found boom-bay bicycle boys who are a indie boy band. They also have a large sum of instagram posts with a huge variety and felt they were a perfect example of what content to create when producing a band. On their instagram they often posted images of Polaroids as here. Using polaroids creates this quite sweet homemade feel to it, bringing back this idea that the band are normal and don't always post these glamorous professional pictures. It also adds in the idea of friendship that the band are all just friends and get on well. Taking this idea I wanted to replicate this. To do this I got an app called Nomo which simply just takes images and transforms them to look like a Polaroid picture. 

 

Here is a selection of some of the images which I created into polaroids. They all have the same homemade feel to them. With these images I will select a couple of the most effective images and use them on the instagram. Doing this adds another elements of media to the instagram. For the instagram I will use both posey shot on the polaroid and a group one in which it looks though the band is having a nice time. This was easy to create therefore if I get any other images I will experiment with this app and turn the images into polaroids, although I will only post two on the instagram. In the pictures I selected to transform into a polaroid they show a variety of different locations and aesthetic this was so I could experiment and see what looks the best for the instagram. From doing this I learnt that the best images are the close ups as they are the most clear. The big group ones are not as effective as they are less visible. I did not realise this would happen as I intended on just using big group polaroid pictures but instead I will post polaroids with just one or two band members in.

This is one of the polaroids I chose and developed it further by editing it in adobe illustrator. I took an image of Kate our lead singer of which I took of her in the music room leaning on an amp and next to the drums. I also used a fish eye lens to get a wide distorted effect on the image. With the picture I changed it to black and white as it focuses viewers attention on the text which displays the band name. I then placed the image on a blue background as I have often used blue as I felt it matched the bands aesthetic connecting the band to the beach and sea. Then using the font I created which has a pinky purple text complimenting the background and the polaroid. The background puts emphasis on the text with the colours I chose. I really like this image as I think it shows the band is quirky and unique with the sense of design in this image. I will then include this on the instagram along with another polaroid but it will include less editing but instead be purely a polaroid.