Making of the maze.

This album cover influenced how I wanted my album cover to be by the fact it is a rubiks cube. I thought this would be a great creation to have the album cover seem more playful. I started thinking of games you do by yourself and I came across a maze. I immediately thought that this was a perfect idea for the album, I wanted to make an intermediate maze . I wanted the audience to have fun solving the maze whilst listening to the music. I began to think that maybe the maze would be to boring just as white, so I though I would add colour to it, at first I thought just blue or red but then I decided that it would be more eye catching if it was multi-coloured, this would also make the maze harder to solve and equally more entertaining.

How many songs should I put?

Fonts I might use.

Target Audience

Gender : Male
Why: Rarest spun is a andocentric band, this causes the band to be mainly aimed at males. I believe that the song is very masculine die to the rock genre that the band follows. Rock is normally seen to be enjoyed more by males than females.

Age: 17-21
Why: I would range the target audience's age to be between 17 ans 21 because the normal age range of this genre are people who are at college or university.

Ethnicity: White Caucasian
Why: The band consists of only white males causing it to become more appleing to the white male. This is due to it being easier to relate to them.

Smilar Artists: The New Rasicals, Elbow, The Pixies ect
Why: This is due to the music being very similar and because these bands also have similar target audiences.

Aspects of our music video that our target audience will identify with.

The aspect of our music video that our target audience will identify with is the performance shots. Seeing as our target audience is white males between the age of 17 and 21 who are at college/university we did some research into this age group and our reseach shows that this target audience are more likely to be/wanting to be in a band, people normally associate being in a band as a lot of laughs and having fun with your mates. This is why we have shots of the band messing about whilst they are performing.

Questionnaire Posted on to Facebook

Age:
Gender:

1. How do you access music? (i.e. Youtube, Itunes, Illegal Downloading, retail outlets, radio, television)

2. How do you listen to music?

3. How do you find out about unsigned bands? (i.e. Facebook, Myspace, Bebo, Youtube, radio, newspaper articles, adverts, festivals)

4. Do you think music videos are a effective way of advertising a band? and why.

5. What do you expect from a music video?
- Fast moving images
- Performance Shots
- Story
- Sexual images of female artists
please state more you agree with.

6. Has any band/artist influenced you in anyway such as your dress code, your lifestyle choices, aspirations, values.

7. Can you identify an artist you strongly identify with, who are they, how have they influenced you?

8. If you belong to a strong fan base does it make you feel as though you belong to a community?

9. How often do you go to live performances?

10. Do you prefer mainstream bands/artists (eg Take That, Britney Spears) or alternative (eg The Foals, Radio Head)

Answers:

Age: 17
Gender: Male

1: How do you access music?
Spottify/Youtube

2: How do you listen to music?
Spottify/Youtube

3: How do you find out about unsigned bands?
I, um... I kinda, don't...

4: Do you think music videos are an effective way of advertising a band? Why?
I honestly wouldn't know. I don't watch them.

5: Whatd o you expect from a music video?
Well, from a blokes perspective I think we all want to see pictures of women in various states of undress... and of course complete undress is always preferable. Otherwise, I havn't got the foggiest. I'm going to g with fast moving shots, because... erm... HEY! THREE HEADED MONKEY!

6: Has an artist influenced you in any way?
Well since I listened to Taylor Swift I've taken to wearing lots of dresses and I- No, no I haven't. Stop laughing. Now, or I will obliterate you with a spoon :D
Proper answer: No, not really been influenced.

7: Can you name an artist that you identif strongly with? How have they influenced you?
As above (question 6).

8: If you belong to a strong fa base does it make you feel part of a community?
Yeah, it does, but it's not a music community. We have a music track though... it's bloody terrible.

9: How often do you go to live performances?
Those music people do live performances? Oh what will they thnk of next? Answer: I've been to a live performance once. It was the Norwich Pops Orchestra. Nothing head-bangable but that "Planets Suit - Jupiter" was a real toe tapper.

10: Do you prefer mainstream bands/artists or alternative?
This is where I show my terribleness when it comes to music. I know no bands and the only people I do know of are Guns and Roses, Taylor Swift, Enya, and offthe top of my head that's all I can remember.

Age: 17
Gender: female

1. How do you access music? (i.e. Youtube, Itunes, Illegal Downloading, retail outlets, radio, television)

itunes, downloading, radio and tv

2. How do you listen to music?

ipod, phone, laptop, stero

3. How do you find out about unsigned bands? (i.e. Facebook, Myspace, Bebo, Youtube, radio, newspaper articles, adverts, festivals)

internet

4. Do you think music videos are a effective way of advertising a band? and why.

yes i do because it gives you a better insite about the song and wht it is about and sometimes get fitties on there

5. What do you expect from a music video?
- Fast moving images
- Performance Shots
- Story
- Sexual images of female artists
please state more you agree with.

fast moving images, performance shot

6. Has any band/artist influenced you in anyway such as your dress code, your lifestyle choices, aspirations, values.

yes it has in a way tht i dress and wht lifesttyle i would like to become when i get there :)

7. Can you identify an artist you strongly identify with, who are they, how have they influenced you?

rihanna

8. If you belong to a strong fan base does it make you feel as though you belong to a community? yeaHHH

9. How often do you go to live performances?

not very but wish i could go to more

10. Do you prefer mainstream bands/artists (eg Take That, Britney Spears) or alternative (eg The Foals, Radio Head)

i like alsort as like as i like it i dont mind :)

Age: 17
Gender: Female

1. How do you access music? (i.e. Youtube, Itunes, Illegal Downloading, retail outlets, radio, television)

Youtube/Illegal Download.

2. How do you listen to music?

With my iPod

3. How do you find out about unsigned bands? (i.e. Facebook, Myspace, Bebo, Youtube, radio, newspaper articles, adverts, festivals)

I don't.

4. Do you think music videos are a effective way of advertising a band? and why.

Yep, cause if they have a decent vid, they're more likely to be noticed.

5. What do you expect from a Music Video?

I don't really watch the actual video, so I couldn't care less.

6. Has any band/ artist influenced you?

Nope.

7. Can you identify with any artist?

Err i guess it's gotta be Sharon den Adel from Within Temptation, I can't really say how she's influenced me, because I don't really know xD

8. If you belong to a strong fan base does it make you feel like part of a community?

Not part of one.

9. How oftern do u go to live performances?

Not very often.

10. Do you perfer mainstream or alternative?

Neither, I'm a metal head at heart (Y)

Gender:Female
Age: 17

1. How do you access music? (i.e. Youtube, Itunes, Illegal Downloading, retail outlets, radio, television)
iTunes,radio,tv

2. How do you listen to music?
IPod, radio sumtimes tv

3. How do you find out about unsigned bands? (i.e. Facebook, Myspace, Bebo, Youtube, radio, newspaper articles, adverts, festivals)
Don't reli no many but it wud be fb or friends!

5. What do you expect from a music video?
- Fast moving images
- Performance Shots
- Story
- Sexual images of female artists
please state more you agree with.
Yes coz it creates talk/hype about the artist which in turn creates fan/get noticed
Performance shots

6. Has any band/artist influenced you in anyway such as your dress code, your lifestyle choices, aspirations, values.

Nope

7. Can you identify an artist you strongly identify with, who are they, how have they influenced you?
Nope

8. If you belong to a strong fan base does it make you feel as though you belong to a community?
Don't belong 2 a fan base

9. How often do you go to live performances?
Rarely

Age:17
Gender:Male

1. How do you access music? (i.e. Youtube, Itunes, Illegal Downloading, retail outlets, radio, television)
Spotify, Illegal, YouTube

2. How do you listen to music?

computer, Vinyl

3. How do you find out about unsigned bands? (i.e. Facebook, Myspace, Bebo, Youtube, radio, newspaper articles, adverts, festivals)
Friends, YouTube

4. Do you think music videos are a effective way of advertising a band? and why.
Yes because sometimes a video is really memorable therefore you remember the band even thought their music might be shit.

5. What do you expect from a music video?
- Fast moving images
- Performance Shots
- Story
- Sexual images of female artists
please state more you agree with.
Don’t care.

6. Has any band/artist influenced you in anyway such as your dress code, your lifestyle choices, aspirations, values.
Can’t think of any singular bands but genres... Indie, Mod, Punk, Grunge (mostly the first two).
Love listening to Pink Floyd and the Kinks... Their music calms and pacifies me in which I can lose myself.

7. Can you identify an artist you strongly identify with, who are they, how have they influenced you?

The Kinks by the Mod style with Fred Perry and DM’s and the ‘I don’t care’ attitude.

8. If you belong to a strong fan base does it make you feel as though you belong to a community? No. However if you find someone else who likes the same band as you like Radikal Guru, you seem to instantly have time for each other and talk.

9. How often do you go to live performances?

Around one every two months since I was 13.

10. Do you prefer mainstream bands/artists (eg Take That, Britney Spears) or alternative (eg The Foals, Radio Head)
A bit of both... But on the whole alternative. It makes you feel a bit special if you find a band which no one else has heard of.

Overall I found that more Females tent to reply to questionnaires and tent to be more truthful. I also noticed that illegal downloading is more popular then buying off of itunes. Many people either listen to 'youtube' and downloading the music than buying the actual CDs. Many people between the age of 17- 19 tend not to watch music videos, they are more likely to find out about new music or songs from friends or pop-ups on the internet.

Many of them don't listen to unsigned bands but many do listen to non mainstream bands/ artists. And i have noticed that not many people between 17-19 actually go to concerts or festivals.