INTERVIEW ANALYSIS - ELLIOT

QUESTION ONE- WHAT EMOTIONS AND CHARACTERISTICS WOULD YOU EXPECT TO SEE FROM AN INDIE MUSIC VIDEO?

• THE PURPOSE OF THIS QUESTION WAS TO FIND OUT WHAT EMOTIONS AUDIENCES EXPECTED FROM AN INDIE MUSIC VIDEO, THIS WOULD GIVE US AN IDEA OF WHAT EMOTIONS AND CHARACTERISTICS WE SHOULD BE INCLUDING TO MAKE IT APPEAL TO THE AUDIENCE A LOT MORE.

• ANSWER- ‘GENERALLY QUITE SAD SORT OF IDEAS, A LOT OF THE TIME INDIE MUSIC VIDEOS AREN’T THE HAPPIEST OF THINGS. I’D EXPECT A LOT OF MUTED COLOURS AND NOT BE THE MOST UP BEAT THING IN THE WORLD.’

• WE CAN USE THIS FEEDBACK FROM THIS QUESTION TO WHAT WE CAN BASE THE MOOD OF OUR VIDEO AROUND, AND HOW WE CAN PORTRAY THE MESSAGE OF THE SONG THROUGH IMAGES IN THE VIDEO. IT WILL ALSO HELP US INCORPORATE THESE IDEAS INTO OUR VIDEO AS ELLIOT SAID ‘A LOT OF MUTED COLOURS’ WE CAN INTEROPERATE THIS IN OUR OWN WAY INTO OUR MUSIC VIDEO. FINALLY IT WILL ALSO HELP US GATHER OTHER PEOPLES UNDERSTANDING OF HOW THEY VIEW THE INDIE GENRE AS WELL AS WHAT THEY EXPECT TO SEE.

QUESTION TWO- WHAT COMES TO YOUR MIND WHEN YOU THINK OF ‘THE SCRIPT’?

• THE PURPOSE OF THIS QUESTION WAS TO SEE WHAT IMAGES AND THOUGHTS COMES TO PEOPLES MINDS WHEN ASKED ABOUT THE BAND THE SCRIPT; IT WOULD GIVE US MORE OF AN UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT PEOPLE ALREADY KNOW ABOUT THEM AND WHAT WE COULD INCLUDE IN OUR DIGIPAK TO GIVE THEM MORE INFORMATION AS WELL AS AN OPINION ON THEIR MUSIC.

• ANSWER- ‘I HAVEN’T REALLY HEARD OF THEM THAT MUCH, I KNOW THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE LIKE THEM AND THAT THEY ARE VERY POPULAR. BUT I DON’T REALLY HAVE A LOT TO SAY ABOUT THEM.’

• FROM THIS ANSWER WE CAN SEE THAT THEY MIGHT NOT BE KNOWN BY A LOT OF PEOPLE AND BE QUITE A LOW KEY BAND, BUT THERE IS ALSO RECOGNITION THAT OTHER PEOPLE THAT HE KNOWS, KNOW OF THE BAND AND HAS SOME KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THEM BUT NOT IN GREAT DEPTH. THIS COULD HELP US TO UNDERSTAND WHAT INFORMATION WE SHOULD INCLUDE ON OUR DIGIPAK WHEN INTRODUCING THE BAND TO A NEW AUDIENCE OF PEOPLE; AND THAT WE SHOULD INCLUDE ONLY THE BASIS OF INFORMATION.

QUESTION THREE- WHAT MEANING DO YOU INTERPRET FROM THE SONG ‘THE MAN WHO CAN’T BE MOVED’?

• AFTER WATCHING THE MUSIC VIDEO FOR ‘THE MAN WHO CAN’T BE MOVED’ OURSELVES WE WANTED TO KNOW IF PEOPLE HAD HEARD OF THE SONG BEFORE, AND WHAT EMOTIONS AND THOUGHTS THEY THINK OF. THIS WILL GIVE US MORE IDEAS OF WHAT TO INCLUDE WITHIN THE NARRATIVE OF OUR MUSIC FOR THE SONG ‘THE MAN WHO CAN’T BE MOVED’.

• ANSWER- ‘ THAT’S ONE I HAVE HEARD ACTUALLY, I THINK IT’S ABOUT A MAN WHO’S COME TO A BIT OF A RUT IN HIS LIFE. AND HE CAN’T NOT LITERALLY NOT MOVE ANYWHERE, BUT HE’S STUCK ON SOMETHING BAD THAT’S HAPPENED.’

• FROM THIS ANSWER WE CAN INTERPRET PART OF THE NARRATIVE THAT WE CAN FOLLOW WITH HAVING A MAN NOT BEING ABLE TO MOVE ON FROM A BIG OBSTACLE IN HIS LIFE. AS WELL AS IT COMING FROM SOMEONE WHO HAS LISTENED TO THE SONG AND THAT IS WHAT THEY GATHER FROM THE LYRICS, WE CAN THEN GO ALONG AND TRY AND IMBED IT INTO OUR VIDEO. IT ALSO HELPS US MOVE AWAY FROM THE STEREOTYPICAL LOVE SONG CONVENTIONS OF MATCHING THE LYRICS TO THE VISUALS LIKE WHAT IS DONE IN THE ORIGINAL VIDEO.

QUESTION FOUR- WHICH OTHER ARTISTS DO YOU VALUE AND WHY?

• BY ASKING THIS QUESTION IN OUR INTERVIEWS IT GAVE US THE CHANCE TO LOOK INTO OTHER ARTISTS THAT PEOPLE VALUE AND WHAT CHARACTERISTICS WE COULD INTERPRET IN OUR OWN WAY IN OUR OWN MUSIC VIDEO.

• ANSWER- ‘JUST OVERALL OR JUST INDIE BANDS? WELL BANDS QUITE SIMILAR TO THE SCRIPT AND THEIR STYLE ARE PEOPLE LIKE COLDPLAY, GENERALLY QUITE DEPRESSED BANDS. RADIOHEAD WOULD BE GOOD.’

• FROM THIS ANSWER WE CAN THEN GO AND WATCH VIDEOS FROM THE ARTISTS LIKE COLDPLAY AND RADIOHEAD AND SEE WHAT CODES AND CONVENTIONS THEY FOLLOW AND HOW WE CAN THEN IMBED THEM INTO OUR OWN VIDEO. AS WELL AS SEEING HOW THEY PORTRAY A SAD SONG IN THEIR STYLE RATHER THAN THE VIDEO BEING SAD AS WELL. WE COULD ALSO LOOK UP REVIEWS OF THESE VIDEOS AND SEE HOW THEIR STYLE IS RECEIVED BY THEIR FANS AND THE GENERAL AUDIENCE AND THEN TRY AND INCORPORATE THAT INTO OUR STYLE OF VIDEO.

QUESTION FIVE- IF WE WERE TO RECREATE THE MUSIC VIDEO FOR ‘THE MAN WHO CAN’T BE MOVED’ WHAT

FEATURES/CONTENT WOULD YOU EXPECT TO SEE?• BY ASKING THIS QUESTIONS IT GAVE US MORE OF AN UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT OUR AUDIENCE WOULD BE WANTING TO SEE IN THE

MUSIC VIDEO AND HOW THEY WOULD WANT THE STORY TO BE TOLD TO THEM ABOUT ‘THE MAN WHO CAN’T BE MOVED’.

• ANSWER- ‘I’D EXPECT IT TO BE ABOUT THE MAN IN QUESTION, WHO SUPPOSEDLY CAN’T MOVE PASSED WHATEVER POINT IN LIFE HAS HIT HIM, I DON’T KNOW MAYBE HE’S FACING SOME SORT OF STRUGGLE THAT HE CAN’T REALLY GET PAST BUT I THINK BY THE END OF THE VIDEO I WOULD LIKE TO SEE HIM MOVE ON WITH HIS LIFE, DEFINITELY.’

• FROM THIS ANSWER WE CAN GATHER INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT NARRATIVE TO FOLLOW AND HOW TO END THE VIDEO IN A WAY THAT WOULD BE LIKED BY THE AUDIENCE. IT ALSO GIVES US MORE OF AN IDEA OF WHAT PEOPLE WHO AREN’T NECESSARILY FANS OF THE BAND ‘THE SCRIPT’ BUT FROM HEARING THE TITLE OF THE SONG WHAT THEY WOULD EXPECT TO SEE FROM JUST HEARING THE TITLE.

QUESTION SIX- WOULD YOU EXPECT THE BAND TO BE IN THE VIDEO?

• A COMMON GENRE CONVENTION OF INDIE/ROCK MUSIC VIDEOS IS HAVE A LIVE PERFORMANCE WITHIN THE VIDEO BY ASKING THIS QUESTION WE WERE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND IF PEOPLE ENJOYED THESE FEATURES THROUGHOUT MUSIC VIDEOS OR NOT.

• ANSWER- ‘YES IT IS ALWAYS NICE TO HAVE A FEATURE, EVEN IF IT IS ONLY A SMALL CAMEO. IT’S NOT ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY. A LOT OF PEOPLE WOULDN’T EVEN RECOGNIZE THEM’

• FROM THIS ANSWER WE AN GET OPINIONS OF HAVING A LIFE PERFORMANCE FEATURE WITHIN OUR VIDEO, IN MOST INDIE/ROCK MUSIC VIDEOS IT IS COMMON TO HAVE A LIVE PERFORMANCE FEATURE IN THE VIDEO IF NOT ALL THE VIDEO IS A LIVE PERFORMANCE. SOME AUDIENCES ARE NOT THAT BOTHERED ABOUT HAVING A FEATURE IN THE VIDEO BUT OTHERS SEE IT AS IMPORTANT. IT ALSO GIVES THE AUDIENCE CHANCE TO HAVE A PERSONAL CONNECTION WITH THE BAND THEMSELVES AND MAKE IT MORE PERSONAL.