Results: Conventions Questionnaire

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Question 1 shows us how 'often' people listen to Soul/RnB, 37.5% say 'all the time' which is similar to the 'sometimes' option, this is good as most of our target audience listen to our chosen genre.

Question 2 shows us the 'style' of Soul/RnB music our target audience listen to most. The majority of our target audience chose upbeat RnB rhythm like 'Beyonce's' music which was 45.8%.  25% chose 'instrumental' such as 'Alicia Keys' and 'Emeli Sande', while 16.7% chose Amy Winehouse. We feel that because there is a mixture of sub-genres our song caters for all of them because it's a bit of jazz as well as up beat music.

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Question 3 looks deeper into 'which type of song' the target audience like, this type of questions shows us the 'emotion' people would relate to with a Soul/RnB song. 43.5% chose 'happy love song', 17.4% chosea 'slow love song/song about families or friend'. As you can see our chosen song by Emeli Sande can be interpreted in certain ways so it could be seen as a 'love song' or a 'song about family or friend' so it is good that the audience chose these two options as the highest. Question 4 shows us what Soul/RnB artist our target audience listen to most. 34.8% chose Emeli Sande which is good as she was our chosen artist. 26.1% chose Beyonce, while Aretha Franklin which shows that the target audience don't want such as 'jazz' song.

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Question 5 is about the setting you expect to see in a Soul/RnB music video. 29.2% chose 'a stage with instruments and a microphone', we feel this would be an effective way of promoting a band in the music video as a whole. 'A glamorous setting e.g. hotel' was second best while a 'natural setting' was third. 'A natural based setting' is 25% which isn't bad as we were hoping from the audience feedback combined with our own idea of the song to be in a sunny location like the park.

Question 5 shows us what colour theme the audience would like, 62.5% suggested elegant dark colours such as 'black, grey, white', we can use this to suggest the colour of clothing or setting and editing techniques.  25% also suggested bright glamorous colours.

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Question 7 shows us that 45.8% of the audience would like the band to be wearing elegant style clothing such as dresses and skirts. With 33.3% wanting to retro style clothes.

Question 8 shows us why people listen to me Soul/RnB music, 77.3% said they listen to it for entertainment. Whereas 13.6% said escapism.

In general from or conventions questionnaire we have found out that people who listen to Soul/RnB music 'a lot', the majority of the audience like upbeat 'happy music' like Beyonce. The majority listen to Emeli Sande. For setting the audience choose a stage which shows a performance as well as a glamourous setting. Me and Sofia are thinking of using a stage setting for some parts of our song but also like a natural sunny setting such as the park. The colours for the theme is dark, but we can also combine the 'glamourous' clolours as they were the second highest chosen by the audience. We are thinking of including the dress code as thse colours to go with the theme. As the target audience listen to Soul/RnB music for entertainment. Katz, Gurevitch and Haas's would describe this as an affective need for the audience, as well as the escapism being a way to release tention becasue the music may be a way of 'getting away', having a good time and relxing for some.