Development of Ancillary Text

Digipak

This is the template I will be uploading on to Photoshop to be able to create my Digi-Pak, I will follow the structure of the template to ensure that my Digi-Pak looks as professional as possible and looks good enough to sell as a real product on the shelves in music shops like That's Entertainment or HMV.

Template view.

Looking at the digi-pak from the template view I am overall happy as the colours used are very eye catching and colourful and I believe this all links to the Pop genre. The used on the disk makes them look shiny therefore making them look realistic and professional looking. 

My Final Digipak Products

 

Here I have shown how my products would look if they were ever to be successful as you can see I have shown what the digi-pak would look like in an official case this will be helpful for when asking for feedback as audience will have a feel of the physical object. I have also shown pictures of what the product would look like on the shelf of a music shop again this is done to show realism. Another aspect I think is useful is I have shown what the album would look like if it was on iTunes this again help show realism of my product.

My final Advertising Poster 

Here I have shown how my products would look if they were ever to be successful as you can see I have shown what the poster would look like if it was officially advertised

 this will be helpful for when asking for feedback as audience get to see a visual view of what it would look like.

Name of Artist

Process of chosen name for my artist
The name of my artist is very important, many artists use their original birth name. Such as Freddie Mercury, Elvis Presley and Peter Andre. 

 

However in the current music industry there is a trend in the Pop genre of music were artists are increasingly using more and more obscure names in order to make it more catchy and memorable to the audience. Here is a list of POP artist and their actual birth name:

Bruno Mars- Peter Gene Bayot Hernandez

Calvin Harris - Adam Richard Wiles

CeeLo Green- Thomas DeCarlo Callaway

Charlie XCX- Charlotte Emma Aitchinson 

They're many other artist within other types of genre who use different stage names. Here is a website which shows many of these artists: http://www.vh1.com/news/1509/oh-na-na-whats-my-name-100-musicians-who-arent-who-you-think-they-are/ 

Finding this research has helped me identify that it is a convention for Pop artist to use a stage name also that it is a convention within other genres of music too. 

My Ideas

My artist birth name is Abbie Longley. 

I used different websites for inspiration:

http://popstarname.com/

I didn't find this website useful as the result was the artist name to be JOY MONROE yet I believe this name doesn't scream pop or even sound unique as its just an original name the name is also only based on gender and original name, I wouldn't recommend this website for people to use and they will be disappointed with the results. 

http://www.gotoquiz.com/results/what_s_your_popstar_name

This website was more of a success then the previous website as they asked series of questions about the artist as to what they would wear, how their concert would be and even how their friends would describe them. The results were useful as many names were created and with these results I will create a questionnaire and randomly select people as to which name suits/fits best for a Pop artist. The names that will be on the questionnaire are: Livi Fox, Kyrstal Kane, Karly Cassidy, Cynthia Rose and Tori Sweet. 

Here are my results from the questionnaire:

  

My final result is the artist to be named Livi Fox I believe this name is very well suited to my artist as its catchy, unique and memorable. The comments from my questionnaire is that people said some of the names sounded old and was not suited to the current music industry, this was helpful as it made Livi Fox sound more appealing.