We passed around our questionnaire to people who attended our sixth form and the teachers were also willing to take part. We managed to get a lot from this and it also helped us map out our ideas. It was really good we chose to do it in our school because our target audience are in that stage in education. 16+ is our target audience and all of our questionnaires were given to people from this category.
This Image shows us that the majority of those who filled out my group and I's questionnaire were females, this could simply be because of my charm or the females seemed interested in our project.
This chart shows the age group of those who helped fill out the questionnaire, our results were that 16 to 19 year olds are our target audience. You could see that there are people at the age of 35 + who we have to make our music video attract.
This chart is showing us that people prefer to see a narrative based music video. Hopefully we are able to pull this off and please the audience.
This is the results of "Do you think band members should be included in music videos and why?", the results show most people would like to see the band members in music videos.
This chart shows the results of what our potential audience listen to in their spare time, most people seem to be interested in RnB.
Whiles thinking about The Verve's album 'Urban Hymns' I also thought about the areas of where we may shoot . The album name gave it away for me 'Urban Hymns', we definitely had to go for an urban looking area, and that is exactly what my group members and I tried to get. The meaning of urban is the characteristics of a city or town, usually a culturally diverse area. So that's when a thought came to mind, what could be more urban than Camden in North London, this area is seen to be real urban and has a lot of features that would go excellent with our ideas. Another place I thought would be good to use is the back one way streets of brick lane, filled with its artistic nature I believed it could also work well.
My
group members and I sat down and went through a list of music artist and bands
to see what song to use for our music video; we had a range of ideas from RnB
to Folk music. We believed that others from out media class may go for the
usually mainstream kind of music, so we decided to do something different,
something nobody would expect we could pull off.
We decided to go for The Verve's 'Bitter Sweet Symphony' which was released in 1997, which would of made me about 4 years old. As you can imagine the song could not have stayed in my head for this long, it is because of the shear quality of the song people still remember it up to this day. The song title 'Bitter Sweet Symphony' really caught my eye because it relates to the good and bad times in life, well that was our understanding of the title.
The Verve formed in 1989, band members Richard Ashcroft (lead vocalist), Nick McCabe (Guitarist), Simon Jones (Bass Guitarist) and Peter Salisbury (Drummer). They were later joined by Simon Tong (Guitarist and keyboard player). The bands commercial breakthrough was in 1997 with their album 'Urban Hymns' which features our chosen song 'Bitter Sweet Symphony' which became a world wide hit. The album was one of the best selling albums in the UK Chart history. The group would be well known to those who live in the UK because the band are from Wigan and the labels are also well known, Virgin being one of them.
The genre of our chosen song is alternative rock, this genre really goes well with our thoughts on what we are going to do in the music video. The genre is important as it would allow my group and I to tell some sort of story in the music video. The song choice has limited us from doing some things that are seen in most music videos such as fast edits, fast movements and anything that seems fun and exciting really. This has not really affected us because a lot can be done with our chosen song.
My group members and I sat down and looked
over the lyrics of our chosen song 'Bitter Sweet Symphony'. You can see in the
image below that we have quite a few ideas, we all had input in what we would
like to be added. The Lyrics really go well with our idea of the video telling
a story about changes and good and bad times, it really relates to the troubles
our society suffered in August 2011. The London riots 2011 I would say helped
the group and I with some ideas, for example the lyrics say 'I can't
change' we related this to the Broadwater farm riots that happened years back, no change
happened from that which makes people believe that the London Riots 2011 was a
copy cat act.
The group and I
believe that the lyrics would allow us to experiment with a lot things; in fact
it has allowed us to think outside the box and relate them with recent things
that have happened in the world. All in all us annotating the notes made our
lives so easy so when it comes to shooting it would be a breeze. Our ideas are
still coming so things are always being added to the sheet.
