Intro: Star image is the way a star appears to their audience and how they represent themselves. The way this is shown is through a music video which will go to their international audience.
How can music videos help boost a stars career: The music videos that artists create can define who they are and also the define how successful their career will be here are way that a music can help boost a artists career.
- Popularity: Music videos can greatly increase a artists popularity as this is showing the artists views and look to their fans so that their will be a buzz around them and the album they are going to release.
- Financially: Music videos raise allot of money for the artist which increases the artists income which then will allow them to make more videos and more music.
- Music deals: By far this is the most important thing that music videos do for a artist as getting more deals adds to the artists credentials and makes them more attractive to getting signed by a huge record label.
Star image sexual
Some artists use their star image to appeal to their audience in a sexual way an example of this is Beyoncé.
Beyoncé - Drunk in love
In this video Beyoncé clearly uses her good looks and nice body to attract a male audience using her sexual star image to become more successful.
Star image political
Some artists use their music videos to put their political views across to their audience an example of this is Eminem.
Eminem - white America
In this video he puts across his views on the problems still in America with discrimination for the colour of your skin.
Star image moral
Some artists use their music videos to show their audience the lifestyle they live and certain ideologies that they follow someone who does this is George Michael.
George Michael - Outside
In George Michaels video it show his ideologies and lifestyle because he is showing the audience a situation that actually happened to him in real life when he was lured into a bathroom by a male police officer and then being arrested by him and his public humiliation as it then brang out to everyone that he is homosexual and it was not on his terms.
Conclusion: Star image is very important as without it they will be less appealing to the audience which will then make it harder for them to be successful. I will be using star image in my music video because it will make the artist more appealing to the audience so will make the video more successful.
The idea of 'Star image' in the industry is discussed well. You refer well to how a video can help boost an artists career. Good video examples are highlighted on how certain use their videos for personal social, political gain.
ReplyDeleteTo improve
-Include a case study of your own artists like I did with Kylie. Include images and examples of videos. You need to discuss the changes of star image and how the video helped this.
-A few examples of some stars and their image on the audience/industry
-where you provide your video examples, give more detail on what they are trying to promote like you do for the George Michael example.