G324 Advanced Portfolio

A music video should be entertaining and interesting as well as appealing to the target audience of the music genre. 

One of the most important aspects of marketing and producing is figuring out who your target audience is. 

Who would be interested in your music video?

A demographic is a set of objective characteristics that describe a group of people. In your case, people who will be willing to listen to or watch your music video.

Those characteristics include things like age, gender, class, ethnicity, sexuality, location, and sometimes education and lifestyle. The most important characteristic is age.

Psychographic segmentation divides the market into groups based on social class, lifestyle and personality characteristics.

One example of a life style classification model, is that developed by the advertising agency, Young & Rubican

The Explorer: Driven by a need for discovery and/or challenge.

The Aspirer: materialistic/ care more about what others think about

The Succeeder: self confidence/ strong goal orientation/ organised

The Reformer: Values their own independent judgement/ anti materialistic

The Mainstream: Largest group/ core need is security/ live in a daily routine.

The Struggler: Seek escape/live for today few plans for tomorrow

The Resigned: Aim to survive/ predominantly older people.

Use other handout for detailed explanation of all areas.

In order to find this information you will need to conduct both primary and secondary research.

Primary: Questionnaires, Surveys, Interviews, Vox pops etc

Secondary: Internet, Magazines, books etc

Before you discover your target audience you will need some information about your production. Answer the following questions first.

What genre does the song belong to? What conventions of that genre are you going to

use/challenge? Which record company would release your video? What representations are you going to include e.g.

(independent woman image, stereotypical image of London, countertypical male character etc)

How will you represent your artist? What type of video are you going to produce? (e.g.

Narrative base) What channels would your video appear on? (e.g.

MTV, MTV Two, AKA, 4Music etc)

With the information you have collected about your production you can then begin to create questionnaires for the general public to establish your target audience.

Example Questions for primary research

What channels do you usually watch music videos?

What is your favourite music genre?What would you expect to see in a

XXX music video?What are your hobbies?

Secondary Research examples

Use the internet to find out what record companies other professional music videos have worked with. (within your genre)

Use magazines to follow the image of your artist. (does it match what you see in their videos?)

YouTube: check out info about what type of people like and dislike music videos within your genre.

Once you have collected both secondary and primary research you will need to analyse your research and answer the main questions.

1.who would be your main target audience?

2. how is your video going to appeal to your target audience?

You would do this through illustrating all your findings on a PPT.

Within your PPT please include all information from step one, step two and step three.

For your primary research you can take pictures of the methods you have used e.g. Survey and add to your research PPT.