Looking for an artist

When looking for an artist there are many things to consider. For example:

Copyright -

It would be best to use the music of an uncopyrighted artist as they wouldn't have a problem with their music being used in a music video project.  However with big artists such as 5 seconds of summer and The 1975, they may have a problem with their songs being used for something they can't really control.


Where to find music -

Websites such as Sound cloud or Youtube are good websites to find unsigned artists.  There are many places where people post their music to get it out into the world, the hard part is just choosing what is good to use.

Ideal track -

An ideal track would be a song which has easy lyrics that are able to be learnt quickly.  This would mean that lipsyncing would be a lot easier and will also look better.  Also, a track which has good contents would be good to use as a good music video can be produced, such as a song which has a kind of story in the lyrics, therefore a story can be incorporated into the video.

Genres to avoid -

Rap - This genre contains some extreme language, sexual reference and also the lyrics can be hard to lipsynced.

Country - This would be hard to do as you need a certain songs need an accent.  As we are not from a place that has a country accent, the song would not be lip-synced right and just wouldn't look right.

Dubstep/dance music - this would not be a good genre to use as there are often very few words in their songs.  This wouldn't work as the work needs to include lip-syncing.