Audience Types & Groups..

The class were split into different groups to work on this production and i will be working with:

Akieba, Kaamil & Mohammed.

We've already started discussing ideas about whether we will have a standalone artist or a band and we came to a decision that it will be a standalone artist who goes by the name of: 'Jason Who'. Here is a print screen of Jason Who's biography typed up on a word document (as you can see, it's still not complete).

Here are a couple of questions we've had to answer regarding our artist:

1. Which music production/distribution company would you approach and why?

Well our artist Jason Who is signed to Sony BMG so they will be distributing the music video. As well as producing for the artists, they also distribute their productions.

2. How will the musical artists' single be promoted and distributed?

TIE - INs:

There will be collectable wrisbands for the fans to collect.

TV PERFORMANCES:

Jason Who will perform on the BBC1 Programme 5:19 and there will also be a video exclusive on Channel 4, E4 & 4Music. When big artists come out with their new music videos, they are often given a lot of attention as they are show at a certain time and date for the first time.

CELEBRITY SHOWBIZ PARTIES:

He will be partying with other British top charting artists such as Tinchy Stryder, NDubz and Dizzie Rascal (these are just to name a few).

3. Breakdown of the artist:

Standalone artist: Jason Who. He is calm and collected telling stories like Nas through his music peices. He will have a smart urban look just like Kano.

4. For their first single which cover song will you make the artist sing and why?

It's going to be an original song because if it was a cover then the artist will be compared to other artists and we don't want that; he's going to be unique.

Audience types:

He is going to be alternative just like artists such as Pharrell, Kano, Stryder and Chipmunk.

There are 5 types of audiences:

1. Mainstream: this term refers to majority of the audience who share the same opinion and in this, majority of the audience who favour an artist or genre e.g Michael Jackson - he's a prominent figure of Popular culture.
2. Cult: This is the definition of a very small highly devoted fan base and often most of these artists have failed to achieve fame outside of the small fanbases; however, there have been exceptions that have managed to gain fame among mainstream audiences e.g Gigs - you wouldn't get the elder generation listening to his music and the youths who listen to him are loyal fans.
3. Subversive: Controversial artists who go againts the concentional social, political, economic principles of a society.
4. Abstract: They are different and their music videos usually have a different image which does not fit in with the narrative of the song e.g Wiley 'Wearing my Rolex'.
5. Alternative: These artists are also different; they are neither mainstream nor subversive and a good example of this would be Chipmunk.