Character Representation

Character Representation

 

As our characters are based upon real lives of those in Central US, i.e. states like Texas, I will be relating to as many conventions as possible for further realism and appeal for our audience.

Typically, our audience are either British or American females, I will be focusing on trying to appeal this particular audience to maximise success.

 

We relate Texas and Alabama with cowboys, hillbillies, corn-fields etc, obviously we're going to attempt to go against some conventions; modernise our video to appeal a more modern audience.

My artist will be closely related to a cowboy, but converting them to become as modern as possible. I'm hoping that my artist and song will connect with my audience as a sense of relation, and potentially motivate my audience in any of the struggles that they may face. If my audience branched out across all ages, then the effects and issues that they could be undergoing are: Exams, Interviews/Promotions or generalised pressure.

 

The idea of transgenderism for my 'back-up' idea, made me think of how our audience would react, I've recently been analysing historical events in transgender media. Presumably, with a more modern target audience, there'd be an increased sense in acceptance as our society has grown in acceptance for LGBT. Like I said though, this is only the 'back-up' idea, thus I have no actual intention of predominantly using it.

 

However, I have considered the fact that this idea wouldn't be appreciated and perhaps neglected by some audience members, but today, when an artist releases a piece of music, the majority of their audience love their music but there are always some that don't.

 

For my music video, I don't want to give a negative representation of the characters as it could result in negative comments overall and inevitably a bad overall mark. I've analysed carefully different eras of Country Music from Dolly Parton to Taylor Swifts early music. The focus around Dolly Parton & Taylor Swift are for inspiration purposes only for the actress, but taking some aspects and gender-bending them, I can represent my artist in the masculine manner now too.

 

With these analysis' my objective is to also not misinterpret groups of people and perhaps 'mixing them up' with others. These analysis' have allowed me to go in depth for the lifestyle of my target audience group.