Reflective Analysis Part Two

My Task was to research two artists using previous biographies created which talks about their life and career. Because I have altered my research I have chosen another artist (Plan B) to use for the Biographies so have made three biographies to research. This will help me create a biography which reflects my coursework Artist. Analysing the biographies will help me understand the type of character the artist have by their upbringing and lifestyles and put that into my perspective.

Looking at task one from the previous album or singles covers created I managed to think of a cover which would stand out from all the rest using high contrast in colour and image, the name of the artist is made using large bubble green writing in an older style of writing because the music is associated with the past in the 90’s, the picture of the artist has been edited with a green and blue blur outlining the artist, these colours all merge together well because they are in the same range of the colour spectrum. Thumbs up is the name of the single and a image of a hand with the thumbs up helps us comprehend what the artist message across to the public is and is a sign of the artist’s star persona.

In the biographies I choose the main pieces which in the life of the artists they have had in their upbringing for example I included their birthplace, which schools they attending and family status. This will help me create a clear image towards making up a biography because the type of music I am using is mainly reflected by their upbringing and lifestyle, for example hip-hop usually is associated with black race and poverty estates in America, however hip-hop is now global and has spread across the world and other cultures such as white race can create music, for example Eminem.

The strengths of both task was that the artists I choose all share a similar lifestyle and the area they live in which all shares poverty and has the scene of having gangs and underground rappers. Because of this is was very simple to create an image of a background which associates with my artist by using a rough upbringing in boroughs of London and interested in hip-hop music. The other task I found difficult at first to think of a good single cover but managed to recreate one in the development and use new images and layout and turn out to be very successful.

The biography task has made me adapt into changing my original concerns of locations to use in my music video and have now found new locations which can be used in my footage. This is because I can use the places where coursework Artist was brought up in. My Album task has now helped me create an Advertisement for my Artist and has helped me think of ideas for my finial Single cover I will be creating further into my coursework.