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PLANNING
Audience Research - (2/11/15)
For our audience research we will be designing a questionnaire, conducting interviews and running an online Twitter poll in order to develop an understanding of our target audience and their demographic. It is important to include audience research into our planning as it will enable us to incorporate some of their ideas and views into our music video, making our final product more appealing to them. By appealing to our chosen demographic we will increase the popularity of our music video and therefore create a final product that reflects highly on our chosen artist Olly Murs. Audience research also allows us to discover what our target audience believes to be conventions within the pop genre, compare it to our own music video analysis and what we have discovered, and then decide which conventions to conform to or not.
Questionnaires - (3/11/15)
Interviews - (5/11/15)
Twitter Poll - (9/11/15)
Conclusion - (11/11/15)
As a group we constructed a questionnaire consisting of 6 questions and handed it out to 20 members of the sixth form, 10 males and 10 females. The reason for this is because the pop genre is non-gender specific so therefore our audience research should incorporate an even amount of both sexes. We only asked sixth from students because we knew that the pop genre specifically attracts younger people, especially adolescence so therefore it would be pointless asking an older generation as our video wouldn’t need to appeal to them. From the quantitative and qualitative data we collected, we discovered that the majority of people with liked or didn’t mind Olly Murs, suggesting that our video will generally be well perceived as people enjoy his music. We asked a question about the most important element in a music video because it allows us to see what our target audience likes to see in a pop music video. From the responses we collected we can see that our target audience thinks that the mine-en-scene of the video is very important. The mis-en-scene of a pop video is also something I have noticed in the music videos I have analysed as being a crucial part in the success of the video. We finally asked them what is their favourite music video and why as we wanted to know the sorts of themes and events they like to see, the majority of which said that they like the fun, enjoyable atmosphere that the video creates, which is a genre convention.
To incorporate social media into our audience research we decided that we wanted to create a small Twitter poll to help us decide whether we should keep the same four characters that we used in our preliminary task. Rob posted the poll on his Twitter feed as he had the most followers so therefore stood a better chance in gaining more votes. I then retweeted the poll in order to maximise the number of people who casted a vote. Although we only managed to get 16 people to vote, the fact that 88% of people who participated voted to keep the characters the same strongly suggests that we should incorporate them into our final video as well, creating a sense of continuity for our target audience.