Questions questions...

It's audience research time! I need to come up with some questions to ask before I head out so that I make sure that I'm getting all the information I need. But first of all, what do I actually want to find out...?

• What people typically expect from a music video.
• What people respond positively and negatively to in a music video.
• Whether people still utilise music videos as a format.
• How they view them.
• What each music genre implies in terms of the moving image.
• Any particularly significant examples.
• What makes a music video memorable.
• What people think of stop-motion (do they even know what it is?) 

So that's what I need to find out. Questions need to let me know what I need to know, without boring people.

1. When I say 'music video', what's the first example that comes to mind? What do you think makes it memorable to you?
2. Do you have any other favourite videos?
3. Do you watch music videos often? Would you prefer to watch music television or on an online streaming site like YouTube.
4. What music genre are you most interested in? What would you expect from a music video of that genre?
5. What would you expect of a conventional Hip-Hop video?
6. Any thoughts on stop-motion animations?

I've already done a post on my target audience. Ideally I should try to interview somebody fitting that description. Alongside that, however, I hope to interview a large variety of people on film.