Analysis of our primary research, questionnaire

I asked a questionnaire to seven students in my class, who are aged between 17 to 19 and I asked the following questions:

1.Have you ever heard of Noah and The Whale?

2.What type of music do you like to listen to?

3.Which do you like better a pop promo with a Narrative or performance?

4.Do you like music with Lyrics or without Lyrics?

5.Would you watch the pop promo of a song even if you didn’t like the song?

From the first question the results were interesting as a lot of people have heard of Noah and the Whale, out of the seven six people have heard of them. This is good in a way because it means that these students have an idea of what type of genre Noah and the whale play, but at the same time it’s bad as these students can compare our pop promo with the original pop promo’s of Noah and the Whale.

There were a various different types of genre for music, but the main types of genres were: Metal, Rock, R&B, Hip Hop, Pop, Trance, and Classical. A lot of these students prefer many different types of genres rather than sticking to one type. There is a joint top of genre of music, which is: Metal, Rock, RnB, and Hip-Hop, pop. This is bad for our group as the genre of music that Noah and the Whale like to perform is indie type music, which the students have not even included in their favorite types of music.

Our group asked this number three because for our pop promo it is just a narrative and we are interested in what people are more interested in performance or narrative. The result of this question came out equal (five each) which is interesting because a lot of the students chosen both. But this is good for our group, as we now know that it is not that important to have any performance and no one will be disappointed.

Our group asked the question four because some people in our class are actually doing a pop promo without any lyrics and our group were wondering what these group of students actually prefer to listen to. This questions goes with what type of music people like to listen to all of those genre’s of music that they choose have lyrics in them normally apart from trance. This is good for our group as we have lyrics in ours also lyrics are good for a pop promo as it gives a narrative which we can follow rather than a pop promo without lyrics because then the pop promo has to go to the beat of the music rather than the lyrics.

The last question we asked because we want to know if any would actually be interested in looking up Noah and the Whale but the results of this showed that people prefer to watch a pop promo if they like the song, people who don’t mind watching a pop promo if they didn’t like the song only said that they would watch the pop promo for research. I think that this is a true point as if you like a song a lot most people want to see how the band have managed to create it on screen.

From our research of this questionnaire I can say that our group is on the right path of knowing how to capture this audience, but at the same time are really down side is that no one in our class enjoys indie, which might put our fellow students off our pop promo.

Own Individual Idea for CD cover & Magazine advert

Cd cover

For my Cd cover of Noah and the Whale – 5 years time, I was going to keep the same idea as the band’s original cover, which is a cartoon form. But instead I was going to have a picture of a whale in the sea and out of the blowhole comes the number 5 then just like the original Cd cover it was going to say in small font under “5” it was going to say “years time”.

Just like the Original Cd cover I was going to have bright colors e.g. Yellow, but instead have a blue skies look with the whale in the sea. I was going to do this as we had some group production meetings in which we thought that the song “blue skies” from the same artist, we were going to use because it was sadder and depression but instead we went back to “5 years time.”

The colour of the number “5” was going to be yellow so that it goes with the blue skies look and it would look good.

Mag advert

I was going to copy the same idea as the album by mika called “ The boy who knew too much” Mika had the same design in the mag advert as the cd cover, the only thing that was different was that the Mag advert had ratings from different magazines and also it showed when it was coming out and what came with it e.g. DvD bonus etc. I would like to do the same thing for my Mag advert because it is easier for people to spot the CD by the cover and the audience might buy it more, as they know what they are expecting. Also I would like to put some rating so for example, “well Done” but I think that it would be a much simpler and stronger message if we just put just 4 or 5 stars, then underneath put the name of the company who is rating but we will make up a random name for instance “ The daily Newspaper.”

Treatment for Editing - by Joshua Panyne

This is our treatment for Editing done by Joshua Payne.

Our narrative consists of two time scales so it will be important to make it clear which scale we are in by possibly using visually arresting cuts such as swipe edits when we switch time scales. Apart from those moments I intend to stick mostly to conventional edits although I may employ a couple of jump cuts during the argument to create an atmosphere of chaotic friction. I may also use a couple of graphic matches during the rapid cuts of the choruses in order to show the breaking symmetry of the periods.

In addition we have also discussed using a super 8 type of visual colour for the flashbacks as it creates a sense of hyper reality as well as harking back to a time in the past. It will also hopefully further distinguish between the different time scales keeping the audience abreast of what is happening in order to avoid confusion. It is also important to point out that editing can play a more significant role in this project than in our film noir project as cuts are often more obvious, numerous and stylised in pop promos. It will also be vitally important to integrate all of our establishing shots to highlight our changing locations as they play a vital role in showing the characters' relationship, i.e the waterfront is when they are calm and relatively happy (the smooth elegance of the boats and water) whereas the park with its wintery and wooded almost gothic atmosphere is better suited for the slightly souring nature of their relationship. Also the tennis court, a place of rivalry and competition, is ideal to show the first glimpses of conflict in their relationship.