Using Excel, I created my own graphs to present the results.
I ended up with 27 responses.
Q1)
From the survey, the most popular result was 16-20. This is good, as it means most of the answers are from my target audience of teenagers.
Q2)
Most were girls (15 girls), but I've managed to try and even out the results by handing out most of the paper copies to boys.
Q3)
The most popular answer for this question was rock, which isn't the genre of my song as mine is pop/folk and rock/folk. However pop and pop/rock was also a popular answer, which means to please my target audience I'll need to include some codes and conventions of pop/rock videos: performance of singer, editing to beat through pretty much all the song.
Q4) From my results of 'What is your favourite music video? and why?', there were quite a few answers of 'funny', 'silly' and parody songs. This suggests that people aged between 16-20 like parodies compared to more official mainstream music videos. Examples of answers were: Miley Cyrus's Wrecking Ball with Nicholas Cage's face, Feminist Blurred Lines, and What Does The Fox Say. These popular parodies such as the Blurred Lines and Wrecking Ball, tell me that teenagers like to make fun of the current media. To try and incorporate these responses, I can link and hint influence from these videos: for instance I'm having people dressed as coyotes which can relate to What Does The Fox Say.
Q5)
17 people selected performance as one of their answers (or only answer). 12 for narrative and 10 for concept. This links back to how rock was the most popular answer and the the typical code and convention for rock music videos is performance. Most of my music video is going to be performance based as I'm including singing and dancing.
Q6) For the question 'Representation of characters: How do you like certain characters/people presented in music videos?' I got many responses on how they hate nudity of woman (which probably was decided by Blurred Lines and Wrecking Ball, as there are many bad responses): 'No nakedness', 'I don't like excessive nudity', 'I don't like when there's a music video that uses excessive nudity to make money', 'Not naked and swinging on metal balls. Or naked girls prancing about or a guy talking about blurred lines. Anything else is pretty much fine'. I'm definitely not going to include naked girls in my music video, as I pretty much agree.
There has been responses saying to opposite however: 'Girls naked (self respecting), and guys rich, surrounded by women, hench'. This again shows the jokey side of my target audience, as this responder (male) is being sarcastic to dig at the song Blurred Lines. However he is also referring to negative stereotypes of male audiences, and how men are highly attracted to the female body. It also suggests that some of the younger generation of boys agree with feminists and how women should be respected.
Q7)
In this question the most popular answer was singing with 22 responses. This works out well, as my music video will include lip syncing. However, I wanted to use slightly complex editing, and the target audience has voted against it (but I'm still going to do what I've planned, as my song is fast and up beat.)
Q8)
Because I need to make a promotion pack for my product, I've asked what is most effective out of the three things I could make. Unfortunately 'Website' was the most popular result. I don't really want to make a website as I feel that a CD and magazine advert would be most effective for my song and will work out better for me to design. However, having a website would be a good way of promoting the video as you could most probably have the video it's self, behind the scenes, and interactive competitions and polls. This is something I'll hopefully decide on later, as I quite like the idea of having a website.
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