Developing your artist

Feature article artist planning

Your music artist will be the subject of your feature article and will be the main image on your front cover. You need to think about this artist carefully- they must fit your magazine’s genre and be the sort of artist that would appeal to your target audience.

Remember our work on publicists and how they 'shape' an image of an artist!

Complete the following steps to design your artist...

1)      Band or solo artist? 2)      Who are they? Profiles of the individual(s). 3)      Why are they doing the interview? (Breakthrough artist, promoting a new album, fresh from rehab... remember: there’s always a reason for an artist to do an interview!) 4)      Appearance: this will help you decide your model(s), costume, make-up and props. Think what ‘look’ would suit their genre of music- it might help you to do a brainstorm of colours, images, styles etc. associated with their genre. 5)      Most magazines use portrait photos taken in a studio, but what ‘location’ shoots could you do to bring out your artist’s personality or image? 6)      Plan your photograph ideas: what do you want them to wear? Do you want any particular type of make-up or just ‘natural’? Locations? Props? Any particular poses/facial expressions?! 7)      For your contents page, you’ll need to mention a few more artists- plan these too! Not as much detail required as for your main artist, but you need to plan them now...