Questionnaire Responses

These are all of the answers/responses people provided me with when answering my Questionnaire, they have been ordered into each question. 

Question 1

·       Hip Hop

·       Not really but dance when working out/running

·       I like all types of music, I do like dance, pop, country etc.

·       Yes

·       Drum and Bass, and electronica not so much but quite like some dance music. My favourite genres are indie and rock.

·       Dance and Drum and Bass

·       Yes, but I like a wide variety fo music.

·       I normally listen to the above and RnB

·       Dance music and pop music in the charts

·       Its okay (drum and bass), not a huge fan of dance, I like a wide range of genres.

·       Yes, drum and bass and dance but I am also into any othe sort of music, because I am

·       Pop, RnB

·       No, I am more into indie, alternative country and american rock

·       Drum and bass

Question 2

·       Lyrical Aspect, beats, feeling etc

·       Fast Pace

·       I like songs that the lyrics are easy to pic up and sing along to.

·       Personal Taste

·       I like the sound generated by live quitar based music. I also think that this type of music is ‘cooler’ than Drum and Bass. I will be in no doubt have been influence by the fact that in my late teens and early 20’s the brit pop scene exploded with blur and oasis at the forefront. This would have coincided with a time in my life where I socialised an awful lot, creating good fun memories.

·       Energetic, good beat, and as music is more than just the experience of hearing it, it is also something you feel throught the beat and the bass and your surroundings such as the vibrations in the floor.

·       Mainly listen to the genre for the beat and because it is popular on nights out.

·       Yes

·       I like music I can dance and sing along to.

·       I like a variety of music, mainly depending on the mood im in when I am listening to music.

·       Easy listening, sing along

·       Because it sounds good through surround sound

·       I don’t know its something instinctive when I hear it

·       Because its entertaining

Question 3

·       Yes – grew up within the era

·       Yes, got album

·       No – usually do not have a lot of time to watch TV or listen to the radio

·       Yes, I am very familiar with faithless

·       Yes, popular dance band, seen them live.

·       Yes – they have become world famous with their hit album and single ‘Insomnia’

·       Yes, have seen them live.

·       Yes, one of my favourite groups.

·       No, not the sort of music I usually listen to.

·       Yes – I think its group who sing insomnia

·       Nope because I havent heard of them

·       Yes, you keep playing faithless in media and insomina is played on loads of things

·       Yes, they were one of the big crossover dance bands when I was growing up

·       Yes

Question 4 Responses

·       100 Duke Dumont – humour/originality

·       Fat boy slim – praise you

·       –

·       Coldplay – the scientist

·       Prodigy – Smack my bitch up, good twist at the end and I really liked the track.

·       Peter Gabriel – Sledge Hammer, love the contrast of colours, very clearly done and very innovative for its time.

·       Kanye West – All  the lights, bright colours, but like it mainly for the song.

·       LMFAO – Sexy and I know it, fun, upbeat and great dancing.

·       Rihanna -  we found love because I like the story it tells.

·       Robbie Williams – millenium – favourite artist like james bond style theme and micheal jackson thriller.

·       Foo fighters the pretender because its epic

·       A7X – So far away – strong narrative, nostalgic and clear back story.

·       I don’t have a particular one, its generally the song I remember, however, the verves bitter sweet symphony was always a fave in my teens.

·       Party Rock Anthem

Question 5

·       rapid editing/something unusual/abstract

·       Dancing people/club

·       Usually, you would expect to see lighting effects, complementing, dancing or the sound of the tunes, they also all seem to be done in warehouses or the streets.

·       Intensive use of artificial lighting, fast pace editing

·       People in a club dancing away. Potentially young youths in their ‘crew’ trying to look hard. Dance videos may take on and abroad, holiday feeling.

·       Flashing lights, lots of movement, colours contrasts.

·       Many different cus, lots of people, upbeat mood.

·       Upbeat and great dance moves.

·       Something exotic, not plain.

·       Unusual effects (filters, layers and oxyegen cannons)

·       Lots of flashing lights/ shapes to meet beat.

·       Fit birds, heavy lighting, boobs

·       No idea, hopefully something original and different from the last one.

·       Flashing lights, dancing

Question 6

·       Bed/PJs

·       Perhaps due to very good music the person the company cant sleep/drug related/guilty conscious

·       So I get up again.

·       Character finding it difficult to deal with the stress of society.

·       Someone looking tired, stressed and restless whils the rest of the world continues without a care.

·       OMG, ZZZZZZ, counting sheep.

·       Some one aggitated, anxious and uptight.

·       A perosn alone, head in hands, dark lighting.

·       Someone unable to sleep

·       Insomnia?

·       Group of people partying showing they are suffering from insomnia.

·       Party! Face camera in normal time whilst everything around it is super fast time.

·       Being wide awake

·       Someone who cant get to sleep

Question 7

·       Yes – catchy/good drop

·       Yes

·       No – I don’t know it

·       Yes

·       Yes, great track, really good lyrics backed up by a great keyboard rift.

·       Yes, it tells a story that most people can relate to, it is very catchy and has a good musical composition.

·       Yes, love it.

·       Yes despite being old its still loved.

·       No, ive never heard it before.

·       Its okay

·       Yes – very catchy -  reminds me of when it was released

·       Never heard of it

·       Yes, it’s a cool song/track

·       No don’t know it

Question 8

·       Club/urban setting

·       Club

·       As above, in a street, warehouse or car park.

·       This can vary because of genre.

·       Clubs, grimy streets, car parks (mostly at night) or a beach/pool during the day.

·       Somewhere with big open spaces, possibly outdoors more likely inside where lighting and sound can be used to full advantage as they play a very big part in the look and feel.

·       Usually a night club.

·       Dark, Night scene or in a club.

·       Dance with exotic lighting, set somewhere unusual

·       Nightclub, nightime/darksetting, large crowds.

·       Night club

·       Party!

·       Varies accoriding to the track

·       Night club

Question 9

·       Mixture

·       Night – unless he is on night shift, this would explain why he cant sleep.

·       Night

·       Combination of both

·       Both

·       Night, but could start at twighlight and build up to darkness and stars and then show the sunrise portraying the passing of the night and still no sleep.

·       Night

·       Night

·       Night time

·       At night time, to show lack of sleep

·       Night

·       Both use the idea of the face camera

·       Woudlnt daylight be a lot more ironic

Question 10

·       5 mins – 8 too longDepends on song, various tunes

·       Shorter video, 5 mins

·       Edited version

·       Totally depends on if I like the track or not, normally though a 5 min video is enough for me.

·       If it really like the song and the video is interesting then I would like to see the full version.

·       Small 5 mins

·       An edited version, 3 or 4 minutes maximum.

·       Edited small version, Insomnia is way to reptitive

·       A smaller version, 8 mins would go on too long and the watcher would get fed up

·       5 mins

·       Depends how good the video is

·       Yeah full 8 mins

·       5 min edit

Question 11

·       Mixture if possible, however, a single charcter could be quite spooky and effective.

·       Crowd -  dance is a shared experience

·       Start with one character, and then build up into a crowd, this is how I see this.

·       Both

·       Depends what song and genre, Indie and Rock can be done with both, I think Drum and Bass, electronica and dance would be better suited in crowds.

·       Combination of one solitary person surrounded by other who could be causing the insomnia or could be a group of people who are not effected  by the insomnia.

·       Central Character -  He/She cant get no sleep, probably male since male vocals.

·       Large crowd suits the genre, 1 or 2 people suits the song.

·       One main character with a possible large crowd at some points

·       Main focus = single character with large crowd surroundings

·       One main person many background people

·       Large crowd – reason cant get no sleep because of having to party with loads of people

·       One character, although a single character effectively lost in a crowd could be effective.

·       large crowd

Question 12

·       Ravers/Youth

·       Young, attractive, energetic

·       Main character, possibly friends, then party crowd.

·       Youngish men and women

·       Males and females aged between 18 and 25. Happy dancy people in dance videos, young lads trying to look hard in Drum and Bass. Both may have central male characters that all the ladies fancy. Maybe?

·       Tribal, earthy, scantily clad dancer types.

·       Single male – Maybe reasons for his concerns, financial worries, personal problems etc.

·       Younger people

·       Swaggish guy with sunglasses

·       Unusual characters

·       Young, night club, early 20’s

·       Teenagers, early 20’s looking mighty fine

·       Not sure

·       both genders – good looking charactes

Question 13

·       Early

·       Early

·       Main tune should come in early, as too long a build up can make the tune boring.

·       Depends

·       If its dark and moody track then a long build up but if its happier then earlier is better.

·       Early – I normally decide if I want to listen or not within the first 20 – 30 seconds.

·       Early.

·       No build up the build up in the song is long enough.

·       After a build up

·       Long build up

·       After build up

·       Not too long but definietly needs a drop

·       Varies on the song and the build

·       after a long build up

Question 14

·       Narrative

·       Depends -  possibly narrative

·       Follow the song.

·       Yes please!

·       Normally to follow the narrartive, ones that go off on a tangent just don’t work. However, reallt quirky videos that do go off on a tangent are the best, if thy are done correctly.

·       Follow the narrative as an aid to tell the story.

·       Follow the narartive.

·       –

·       Follow the narrative of the song.

·       Slight tangent

·       Follow narrative

·       Follow the narrative

·       Both

·       follow the narrative.