Questionnaires...

Here is the set of questions that we came up with as a group before we began to film anything. We wanted to collect some data from different people in order to further understand our target audience and what is expected of an Alternative Rock song/band.

1. How old are you?
14 or under [ ] 15-16 [ ] 17-20 [ ] 21-25 [ ] 25-30 [ ] 30+ [ ]

2. Are you male or female?
Male [ ] Female [ ]

3. How do you usually watch music videos?
TV [ ] Internet [ ] Download [ ] Other [ ]

4. What is your favourite genre?
Rock [ ] Pop [ ] Alternative [ ] Jazz [ ] RnB [ ] Heavy metal [ ] Classical [ ] Other [ ]

5. How often do you watch music videos?
Never [ ] Everyday [ ] Every week [ ] Every few weeks [ ] Rarely [ ]

6. Do you prefer funny or serious music videos?
Funny [ ] Serious [ ]

7. Do you prefer music videos that are reaistic or non realistic?
Realistic [ ] Non realistic [ ]

8. What are your expectations of rock music videos?

9. How do you interpret the lyrics "She's such a charmer"?

10. What music channel would you expect to see a Kings of Leon music video on?

11. What colours do you think represent the rock genre? and why?

Not only did we print some of these out and get people to physically fill them out, but I thought it would also be a good idea to send the questions out via Facebook. This is a fast, easy way to gain information from a larger number of people. Here is a print screen of the message that I sent out to a number of different people;

(Click on the Facebook images to enlarge them so they can be read)

Here are three different responses that got sent back to me via Facebook. I think this was a very effective way of gathering information for our own research as it was fast and lots of people had easy access to the questionnaire.