Looking For An Artist

As I want to create a successful music video, I have to make take into account several things before I go about making this music video.

Copyright Issues

As I don't want to have any issues with copyright laws, I'm going to be approaching unsigned artists who are relatively unknown to ask for permission to use one of their tracks for my music video. These types of artists will be much more easier to contact and will have smaller fan bases than the established and very well-known artists such as PartyNextDoor, Chris Brown and Kanye West who will be very hard to get a response from.  They could also gain good promotion from us making a music video for them, thus allowing to gain more fans.

Where to find artists

I will being using music sharing sites websites such Soundcloud, Reverb Nation and Unsigned.com to search for the right unsigned artist as many of them use these websites to share their music and often leave contact details which will be easy to gain permission from them. 

The ideal track

Two important things to take into consideration will be the length and vocal content of the potential song.  The actual video should last for up to five minutes and be no shorter than three minutes. The song should also be clean (no bad language or sexual references) and have enough vocal to show lip synching and performance.

Genres to avoid

Music genres that often have songs that contain bad language, sexual references or have little/no vocals should be avoided. I'm looking to avoid genres such as Rap, Hip-Hop, House and Dubstep/Trance as these genres often have these things in their music.