Music Vox Pops

When it comes to making Vox Pops there are a few ‘rules’ in which you have to follow to get the perfect Vox Pop. Firstly the person that is being interviewed needs to be on the right hand of the screen and needs to be looking towards the interviewer who is to the left of the camera man so that the interviewee is looking off camera. Each time an interviewee is first mentioned there should be a banner at the bottom of the screen telling the audience who they are, their age and what their occupation is. And lastly they should be filmed in a busy place for a sense of realism.

Up above there is a video of our Vox Pops in which we filmed at school in the corridors, we interviewed 10 people I which 5 were boys and   were girls to get a good variety of people and therefore answers. The questions we were proposing to the interviewees were open ended question about music videos, they were open so we could get their opinions and not only closed yes or no’s. The ten people that we asked the questions to were: Aaron Bailey, Kuziva Mutisi, Becky Boyfield, Georgia Allman, Eve Hilliam-Cooke, Mrs Kaur, Sam Hargrave, Chelsey Hibbins, Abi Brown and Tom Branch.

First question:

What is favourite genre of music video?

Kuziva: R&B

Georgia Allman: Pop

Aaron Bailey: Funk-Rock

Becky Boyfield: Indie/Alternative

Eve Hilliam-Cooke: Pop

Mrs Kaur: Indie, Rock and alternative

Sam Hargrave: Hip Hop

Chelsey Hibbins: Pop

Abi Brown: Indie

Tom Branch: Rock

From these answers we can see that the majority of the people we questioned were into either the pop genre or the indie genre, this can be quite useful for when it comes to producing our music promo as we can see to use some of the similar conventions of those genres into our production to gather a larger target audience.

Second Question:

What do you like to see in music videos?

Kuziva Mutisi: Nice performance and something that's memorable

Georgia Allman: Something that's eye-catching and has a nice performance

Aaron Bailey: Something that's eye-catching, nothing all the same as that's a bit boring

Becky Boyfield: A good story line and a good performance by the artist

Eve Hilliam- Cooke: Eye-catching

Mrs Kaur: Something abstract so it has a bit of nature and a bit of performance, seeing the artists so that I can feel like I can get to know them

Sam Hargrave: A few editing techniques

Chelsey Hibbins: A lot of dancing

Abi Brown: Stories being told

Tom Branch: I like to see all band members and their instruments

From these answers it is clear to see that one of the main elements everyone really looks for in a music video is something with good actors, good performance and most of all something very eye catching and not boring. This is useful for when it comes to our production as we will make sure that the best actors are picked to be in them (by doing auditions), good performance mixed with a lot of narrative is shown and to produce something that is fun and eye catching to the audience to keep everyone intrigued.

Question 3

What style of music videos do you like? Narrative or performance?

Kuziva Mutisi: Performance

Georgia Allman: Something that's colourful and bold and performance

Aaron Bailey: Performance

Becky Boyfield: Illustration and narrative

Eve Hilliam- Cooke: Narrative

Mrs Kaur: Bit of both but instead of narrative something more abstract

Sam Hargrave: Fast pace with a bit of narrative

Chelsey Hibbins: Narrative

Abi Brown: Narrative

Tom Branch: Fast paced with lots of noise, quite loud and performance

From these results we can clearly see there is a mixture between both narrative and performance, this will be useful for when it comes to making our production as we can do it so it contains both narrative and performance equally to cater to all the audience’s requests.

Question 4

Where do you watch music videos?

Kuziva Mutisi: YouTube and TV

Georgia Allman: Spotify or YouTube

Aaron Bailey: YouTube or Sound cloud

Becky Boyfield: YouTube

Eve Hilliam- Cooke: YouTube

Mrs Kaur: YouTube

Sam Hargrave: YouTube

Chelsey Hibbins: YouTube

Abi Brown: YouTube

Tom Branch: YouTube

From getting these results it is excellent feedback to see what kind of platform/website people use to watch music videos as we can take this information and use it to see what one we should use to put our video on to get wider attention and that is YouTube, this will be beneficial when getting feedback on our video helping then with our evaluations.

Question 5

What pace should a music video be? Fast, medium or slow paced?

Kuziva Mutisi: Like all three

Georgia Allman: Any depending on the song

Aaron Bailey: Medium pace

Becky Boyfield: Medium pace

Eve Hilliam- Cooke: Medium pace

Mrs Kaur: Depends on the song, so if it’s a slow song a variety of edits but slow paced edits, and if it’s a fast paced song then fast paced editing

Sam Hargrave: Fast pace

Chelsey Hibbins: Fast pace

                                                     Abi Brown: Fast pace         

Tom Branch: Fast pace and it’s got to have a good beat

Again these results very beneficial for us and our production; we can see that again there is quite a mixture of answers and they are between fast paced and medium paced: this helps us as in our production we can use editing along with our funk-rock song (that is already fast/medium paced anyway) to get that perfect balance between fast and medium paced to cater for the audience’s needs.

Question 6

What do you think are the most important conventions for your favourite genre?

 Kuziva Mutisi: A good vocal performance

Georgia Allman: Something that's eye-catching and memorable

Aaron Bailey: Something that eye-catching and gets your attention all the way through

Becky Boyfield: For it to be down to earth and for it to have a good acoustic guitar

Eve Hilliam- Cooke: Memorable

Mrs Kaur: Cutting to the beat so ensuring that it’s edited well, having a mixture of performance and abstract narrative, seeing the artist and having some sort of fun element to it

Sam Hargrave: Bit of narrative

Chelsey Hibbins: Some illustration

Abi Brown: Illustration

Tom Branch: A good performance

Like an earlier question the main result we got from this question is that people want something that is extremely memorable and eye catching for the audience, that doesn’t let them get bored but keeps them intrigued all the way through, it has to have good actors and instruments to give the whole music video a realistic vibe and has to contain a good narrative.