Audience research

Here is the link to my survey:

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/MPVY7Y3

I will use this survey to gather information about my target audience and make a post on the gathered results.

Potential ideas update and summary

From my potential ideas I have chosen to use my alternative song for the first band, Whiskey In The Jar by Metallica. I have chosen this song because the audience I presented my ideas to strongly recommended I used this song as it was my most developed idea and was the most promising.

Potential Ideas Feedback

Below is a picture of the rough notes that I took as I was gathering feedback on my potential ideas:

Potential Idea 1 (Alternative): Whiskey In the Jar

After I created my first potential idea post, I then found another song by the same artist which I thought would be an easier and better alternative.

Potential Idea 3: Satellite

Potential Idea 2: Forever

Potential Idea 1: Nothing Else Matters

Preparing for potential ideas

For my potential ideas I am planning to pick three different artists that I am familiar with and choose a song from each artist that I feel I will be able to create a product on.

I will then present each idea with the original music video to compare my ideas (showing differences and similarities between my ideas and the original) to an audience to gather feedback from a range of people. Each song and its presentation will have its own post on my blog.

The task so far

This is just a quick progress check to see how I am doing with the course.

How have you found your timekeeping and organisation?
In all honesty I could significantly improve my timekeeping, as I have noticed that I am not giving myself enough time to do tasks. I plan to improve on this by making sure that any posts I am given are started if not finished the night I am given them.

What have you leant that will help you plan your product?
I have learnt that I should plan around the resources and actors that I have at my disposal rather than a high concept idea. This will help me to get organised on what I have and what I need to get for my filming.

What research task do you think has been the most useful, and why?
I think that the Andrew Goodwin's theory research has been the most beneficial as it is something completely new to me that I did not know previous, whilst I knew a fair amount of information already on genre research and although I had not heard of the theories specifically I already knew the concept for Todorov and Barthes theories.

Todorov's Theory and Barthes Theory

Applying Goodwin's Theory: Rock

Applying Goodwin's Theory: Metal

Applying Goodwin's Theory: Pop

Genre Research: Pop and Rock

Andrew Goodwins Theory

Andrew Goodwin's theory is that music videos are a genre themselves, and that they usually follow six main characteristics (shown above).

Initial Thoughts

I am looking forward to creating my music video and it seems like it will be a rather enjoyable task, however, the editing and some of the more technical aspects of filming (cinematography and creating the correct representation of that genre) might cause some difficulty or make more time and effort have to be put into filming. I am rather anxious as this year I will be working on my own and the prospect of filming and editing a music video on my own is daunting. I will try my best to create a good product.

What Is To Come

Group or not to group? That is the question...

Reflecting On My AS Course