Selecting an Artist and Song

From our target audience research we know that we want a solo artist, and that many of our target market would prefer a female singer. The criteria for the song was : 'upbeat', 'strong pulse', 'strong' and 'confident'. We also decided to choose an uncopyrighted song.

To find an artist who meet our criteria we started of thinking and asking around the people we know. Many of our friends or family members are singers however some were in bands, some were slow paced singers thus making them not appropriate for our project.

We then spread our net further afield looking on social networking sights for instance Facebook, and Myspace. We each found a few on these websites however when we discussed them as a group we decided that they either didn't fit our research criteria, or they weren't right for this project.

After the social networking sites we started going onto websites for unsigned artists. An unsigned artist website that we have used in the past is Jamendo. The main issue we had with this website is that the songs were not upbeat enough, or didn't have the right feel to them. Unsigned is another website that we browsed during our search. We found this to be a much better website with a wider oray of up-to-date music. We used the search criteria to narrow down our search and finally we found our artist. Jessica Drake. Following this we googled her name to find her personal website of which we chose the song off.

We have created a Prezi presentation in order to explain how we got to our  choice of artist and song. If you double click the screen shot below it will take you directly to our presentation.