Wednesday, 21 September 2011

Audience Research- Survey

This questionnaire is currently being sent around to friends and family on facebook so I can get a good, varied response. The results of which will be posted later on when there are a significant amount of responses.

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Plan of Audience Research

We will have various ways to ensure that we get good audience research. Firstly, we will create a survey using the free website "Survey Monkey". I used this website last year and it is a good way to get feedback from the audience.
We will also look on our artists facebook profile to look through the demograhphics of the majority of his fans.
We will look through the youtube comments on his song that we have chosen and see what people feel about the song. On the blog, we will do a post on relevent comments about the song.
We will also do field research where will will interview various people to get their opinion.

Tuesday, 20 September 2011

Analysis of Shaggy's album "Hot Shot"

This is a video I have done to Analyse how this album digipack satisfies the needs of its target audience. And how it complements the music video.

Media Language

1. A digipack is a physical copy of an album with inlay and CD. It gives the consumer more in order to engage them with the artist.

2. Intertextuality is the relationship between different media texts. An example could be with Big Bang Theory when the group of them go to a cinema to watch "The Planet of the Apes". This could be used by us in the marketing of our video by the cast of our video wearing band t-shirts or something along those lines.

 

3. Intertextuality could be used in the marketing of our digipack through advertising it in the music video by showing it off or using the same artwork so the audience can see a part of the digipack in the video.


4. Goodwins Theory says that the three possible relationships between lyrics and visuals in a music video are the visuals either illustrating, amplifying or contradicting the lyrics. An example of the lyrics illustrating the visuals in the music video is seen here :- "I even had her in the shower"


5. There are various ways we could develop a star image for our artist using star iconography by making him play the piano in the video to create his image.


6. The record company will usually have many demands on the video. One could be that they need to maintain their image so as to not offend their fans. For example, Pete Doherty of the band Babyshambles would be expected in their music videos to show off and be quite outlandish. This would be offensive to some people, but their fans would enjoy it. This is the aim. On the flip side, new artists that have not got a niche audience would be expected to cater for various people and not be expected to be outrageous in their music video and offend anyone. 

Monday, 19 September 2011

Camera Angles used in Music Videos


This is my timetable

Artist Choice

One member of our group emailed a musican called "Nick Gardner" who has some of their own music on Youtube. We had a reply and have been given permission to use his music for our music video. Therefore we are now deciding out of two songs, which one to use.