2. What are record labels?
A record label is a company that markets and distributes
music. Sony Music Entertainment, Epic Records and so
on are examples of these. Record labels manufacture
the artist’s music and pay for them to be recorded,
written, music videos to be directed and filmed, and
much more. Artists often sign contracts with record
labels for an amount of albums to be made and
distributed with them. Artists lately have become
progressively more dependent on their record labels to
expand their consumer base they do this through their
star image which I have discussed in another task.
3. Would your artist be signed to a major or
independent label?
Our artist is going to be signed to an independent
label. This is because independent record labels are
not given money by major companies, and act
independently. The majority of artists start on
independent record labels. We would be signed to
an independent label because they work
independently which we are going to and produce
the music videos themselves, another thing in
which we are going to be doing.
4. Tell me a brief history of the record label you think your artist is best suited to. What
are their origins? What other artists do they have signed? Do they specialize in
certain type of music or do they have a very broad genre base?
Our artist would be appropriate for XL Recordings,
which is an independent record label. They have
signed many popular artist. XL Recordings was
launched in 1989, to produce dance music, but
now includes other types of genres.
5. What is copyright and how are the record
labels responsible for this?
Copyright is a name meaning the ownership of
something. The person with copyright over
something is the only person that can
distribute it and make a profit from it. Record
labels have this as they must to keep
ownership of the music the artists produce so
that people cannot make money from their
work.
6. Our Record Label
ur record label is named Drum Kit records. Drum Kit records is based in London
which is a popular resort. We decided Our label is a outline of a drum kit, with our
name in bold clear, dark lettering underneath it. It is an easy recognisable logo. We
are a small independent company which started out in the early 2000’s when the
pop rock genre was a particular popular genre. Different types of artist we would
sign are these can be artists such as; Nickelback, 5SOS, Paramore, Avril Lavigne and
so on.Our artist will be best suited to Drum Kit records because our record company
specifies in pop-rock which is the genre of our song. and most of the songs on the
album.The record label management team will be able to help our artist portray
themselves in a icon perfect star image and in order to choose a specific fan base for
Ann Lou’s particular style of music. Most of the bands we have signed are well
known and have done well know live events. Some of the artists they have signed
varies as in some are more popular than others.
7. What do you need to consider as you are using copyrighted music?
What are you not allowed to do with your music video? What can you
do?
We need to bear in mind the fact that the song
we are using is owned by the record label.
Therefore we cannot distribute it for money,
Therefore we will use a disclaimer
(specification) saying that we have only used
the song for an educational purpose and that
the only thing we will gain from it is our grade.
We will put the video on our blog with the
disclaimer.
8. How are you going to use what you have learned about record labels
and copyright in your productions? E.g. adding the logo to the digipak
and advert. Copyright logos etc.
We are going to use the different styles of production and editing that the record labels use
when producing. We are going to add the logo to our digipak and magazine advert because it
is our record label in which we have made ourselves for our specific artist. I will add my logo
onto the digipak in order to make it look realistic. I cannot use my music video in order to gain
income or for promotional features, I am allowed to use it for educational purposes only and
the only thing I am going to gain from this is a A2 grade, I’m fully aware of this and know what
I am allowed and aren’t allowed to do.
Again will use a disclaimer to say that it is for educational purposes only. This is attached into
the blog
