The document discusses target audiences for an indie music genre song. It notes that the typical target audience for indie is males ages 15-24, as indie lyrics often discuss relationships and life experiences that this demographic can relate to. The chosen song for analysis, "never get lost except by your side," has lyrics about lost love that would appeal to the target audience's interests in expressing emotions. A narrative or performance music video could effectively meet the audience's needs by incorporating a relatable story or emotional performance to draw them in.
2. What genre does your chosen song fall into? Indie is a genre of rock music and mean of producing that music that originated in the UK and USA in 1980s.It is rooted in earlier genres such as alternative rock, post-punk. The term "indie" to describe any music produced by artists working within the network of independent record labels and underground music venues. The genre that falls into our song is indie. The reason why we decided to use indie genre this is because it advertises young male bands representing into the indie genre. We can also highlight that our song is a indie genre this is because most bands play different varieties of instruments which encourages the discovery of new music. Indie music describes the major concerns of record labels and an autonomous.
3. What genre does your chosen song fall into? The main reason why our chosen song falls into the indie genre this is because the lyrics based are similar to our chosen track. For e.g. CASPA & MR HUDSON - Love Never Dies this signifies that love lasts for ever which reflects to our chosen track. This is because both tracks are based on love. However the name of our chosen track “never get lost except by your side” signifies that he’s lost with his emotions cause he's fully in love with
4. Who typically buys this genre? How do you know? In order to create a music video based on indie I need to understand who my main target audience is by researching who usually listens to indie genre . Generally male audiences ages 15-24 year olds are the target audiences for indie. This may be because of they may have similar costume and that they bands culture lifestyle may relate to the male audiences.
5. What Age? My target audiences for my media product is mainly for male genders ages 15-24 years old. This is because this image shows that generally young male tend to listen to indie bands this is because many indie tracks are a narrative based story which discusses about relationships and life. The use of costume in this slide and the black colour signifies that their depression based on a particular story.
6. What are the likes and dislikes of your target audience? How are these reflected in other music videos from your chosen genre? Target audiences implies that the indie is literally independent. However some audiences believe that this is currently untrue this is because though it once was an absolute specification to be classified as indie. Some audiences believe that Indie music isn't so easy to target. Audience responses to Indie music is a like a famous child we all watched grow up. Target audiences believe that they know it, they make assumptions. They assume they know who it is before the indie genre is was fully formed.
7. How do the songs lyrics meet the needs and desires of your target audiences? The song lyrics would desire my target audience and meet their expectations this is because the name of our chosen track “never get lost except by your side” signifies that he’s lost with his emotions cause he's fully in love with the other half. These lyrics desire target audiences who are lost with their emotions for the person they love. This is the link of the chosen track. http://www.unsigned.com/4kicks
8. How would a concept/narrative/performance video meet the needs of this audience? A narrative video would meet the needs of the male audiences this is because the storyline of my music video may attract their attention because of the relationship break downs which may relate to their life experiences etc. A performance video would also attract the audience attention this is because the artist would express their feelings on how they feel about their situations.
