Evaluation Question 3 Target Audience Feedback

Focus Group At the beginning of the process of creating my music video when I had

written my initial ideas down of what best matched the lyrics and I had started producing a beat script, I gathered a group of people of the correct target audience group. With this group I played my chosen song ‘lost and found’ and asked them what they thought a matching narrative to these lyrics would be and made any necessary changes to my ideas and beat script, in order to write my full script.

Focus Group Continued

The questions I asked the focus group were as follows: -

1. What images were iconic to you when you heard the lyrics?2. Do you prefer narrative, performance or concept music videos?3. Do toy prefer location or studio shots?4. Do you think the song and our ideas target both male and female audiences?5. Do you enjoy intertextuality?6. Do you believe Chloe and Myles (out star images) make good star images for the video?7. Does our star image represent a modern representations of women?

Effects of Focus Group

After my first stage of target audience research it influenced my ideas and how I would write my script.

I initially planned to portray my star image as a lonely individual however after suggestions made in my focus group this changed to her being a happy individual however still subtly showing she is lonely, which was clear in how Frankie was looking at guys and through social media.

After asking the TA group if they preferred studio or location shots it became apparent we should not include any studio shots which we achieved as all our shots were in a location such as the countryside or a town.

Target Audience Consumption

The second part of TA research I did was to establish how my target audience generally listened/watch music videos.

The questions I asked to receive relevant data was as follows: - We asked 20 people between the ages 16-18 some TA questions;

1. How do you watch music videos?- You Tube- Music Channels- Social Media- Other2. Do you listen to a lot of music?- Yes- No3. Do you ever download music? If so where from?

4. Do you ever buy CD's?

Effects of Target Audience Consumption Research This research I conducted revealed that most people tend to not watch

that many music videos but if they do they would watch it on YouTube, however most went against the options given and said they tend to listen to music on Spotify.

It also revealed that very little amount of people buy CD’s anymore as there are apps such as Spotify and apple music which are much more convenient.

Focus Group – Video so Far

I did a further TA group research at the point of the rough cut of my music video, this enabled me to get the opinions of my target audience and what changes they believe should be made.

This revealed that my target audience understood the narrative of my music video and thought the sync of lips to lyrics were good.

They said that the cuts needed work to be blended together better which was later achieved.

Final TA Research