Artists Creative Agency

Monday, September 4th, 2006 at 8:37 am

Reelmusician - Reel Artist Press Kit Design!

After reviewing a lot of artist demos, press kits and bios as a former talent agent reservation with the William Morris Agency and founder of ReelMusician.com, I decided to write a short article on how to formulate a viable and avoid eye artist bio hype and capture the attention of the music industry. As the years have passed and technology has increased, one would think that the BIOS, folders press and various other articles written by an artist press kit will improve - I think it has gotten easier, but better still am debating. There are fundamental truths and principles should be incorporated into your press kit material, if you really want to call the attention of industry professionals and land some real success.

There are no quick or complete as many rules as there do not create your artist bio. I can tell you from experience that creating a press kit artist is not as easy as one might think. Anyone can have a friend or another member of the Law of putting together a press kit, but that really shines and attracts the attention of your audience is key -- not only creating what everyone is creating. Believe it or not, I tend to think that not many industry executives do not even bother with the passing of artist press kits mill with CDs shipped in the bombardment of emails received on a daily basis. Unfortunately, there are probably some very deserving bands in the stack, but if you get their attention or are not making a polished approach to his material, then you can forget - incredible reel or not.

As we move forward here, please contact with ReelMusician.com if you have any questions about the artist press kit design. Many of the articles, features, logo design work and material Free available there, as well as the opportunity to have professional staff to design and write your artist press kit material. For starters, there are dozens different forms of presentation press kit. It is highly recommended that you have your folders professionally printed with your logo, etc., and not take the gloss black folder everyone is using. I understand that money does not grow on trees, and if you are cash tight, then you might consider a color other than black out as blue, yellow, red, or variations, etc. From this idea, we'll see the logo design. Do you or your band now has a logo? - If you owe. Logos are increasingly important in defining the act today. Logos also helps create the environment for the tone that you or your band. Logo designs are pretty cheap and the software is out there that is a great help in achieving some very professional designs. Your logo should be printed on the front of virtually everything that its name is on - From the deck of press materials, CD cover, bio, etc.

Looking to create your bio, almost seems like a daunting task for get the flavor and the right tone and pitch verbalized in such way that they fit together, provide a basis to tell your readers why they should go further in his act, and act so that readers will not be extinguished. This is a common thread among those who are serious about a media kit powerful and not only pull together to have something to send. Let me assure you that if you want to implement some of these ideas and then reading and ideas on the website ReelMusician.com, which will be well on your way to creating quality, attractive discount kits.

As a matter of practice, you start reading as much material as you can, either online or printed, glean writing tips and ideas art direction found in the conventional artist write-ups. I'll tell you that due to the mere position and the presence of record deals, which is a bit harder to write his biography. It's a much easier task when you can talk about play dates scale with 40 acts, individual or his own freedom, etc. when you first start - I am well aware of this. That's why we recommend professionally written bio in the front of his career. Professional writers who write bios and press kits tend to have a better idea of how to address certain deficiencies with written material then stronger artists or band members. When you're in the business of writing and to make someone look good in print, with little name recognition none, to get an idea and gets good choice verbiage.

So what to include in your bio artist? Include the name of the law in the upper bold - do not be so artistic Fartsy that individuals can not read the name or the main body of biotechnology in the case. Include dates of game, singles released, important the passing game (number of letter) and where members of the band and nothing about any player who exudes credentials. Be sure to include release dates future, any future solid reserves, the artist manager if they have credible acts to substantiate its credibility, the length of the band being together, if more than one year, and genre of music. It also spends much time getting the music style and do not include the raising of the president of school choir and any other consequence of the information. It is better to have a short biography, which stretch to the information that nobody cares a damn about. That came a specific city or region may be important for some unknown reasons, but if not, do not include it. Not including local fundraising was played itself is not a regional program quite significant. You get the idea - Do not include anything you think the reader can read and say, "So what".

Finally, and more could be written here, but for the sake of time and length of this article, I leave you with that less is more, do not use the same color old and tired of the folders, and be aware of what is really important when writing his biography of the artist. Let your creativity be wrapped in the user reading without using a lot of unnecessary or useless hype that hurts more than supports or highlights and start looking at many press releases and the BIOS to pick ideas.

About the Author

Mr Gauger is a former talent booking agent with the William Morris Agency and founder of http://www.ReelMusician.com. You may contact the author at tgauger@reelmusician.com. Free e-books "The Jingle Singer's Guide," and "Secrets To Great Song Demos," may be downloaded at http://www.ReelMusician.com.

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