I am producing 2 media products for set brief 4. This is because I am very interested in the music video industry, and how they can include advertisements and how these appeal to their target audience. I wanted to take up this brief because I am very interested in the narrative theory especially Todorov, his theory that a character will go through five stages, being equilibrium, disruption, recognition, repair and then a new equilibrium. I am especially interested in this theory when it comes to music videos due to lil Nas x and old town road, you can see within that music video that this theory can be applied, and I want to use his music video as inspiration to create my own that can be enrolled with Todorov’s theory.
Within music videos, it is very important to have a target audience in mind, so the audience I am targeting will be teenagers who are just emerging into their own narrative of becoming a young adult. Essentially, they will be 16-20, struggling to find themselves, and looking for ways of expression. In terms of Psychographic profiling (Rubicam & Young), I am targeting ‘The Struggler; and ‘The Explorer’. Within terms of the uses and gratifications theory (Blumer & Katz), I am targeting people who want to escape their real lives and imagine themselves in the situations shown on screen (Escapism), but also on the contradictory people who want to recognize a personality that mimics one of their own characteristics (Personal Identity). Therefore, my main aim is to recreate media with a new form aimed at younger people searching for themselves rather than plain media that is informative. As I often watch music videos produced by Vevo, I will ensure to incorporate that style, tone and register, and my music videos narrative and imagery will reflect this professional product. For example, Vevo’s music videos use a lot of narrative based videos, which often tailgate old genres such as spaghetti westerns, I will base my music video on a specific genre and use my narrative to follow that. In terms of the magazine production, I always read kmag, so again my media product will reflect the informal tone of this publishing industry.
I want to make both productions connected in terms of content and representation, so my imagery within the magazine will actually be from one of the scenes within my music video and will include the actual actors I have used within the video. I will also use consistent branding and iconography, such as the magazines heading and internal context pages to ensure iconic and indexical signs (C S Pierce) are consistent. As with the written articles on the blog, I will yet again use an informal register of language, in order to reel in my target audience who are outside of the box, and wanting to see something less formal than mainstream media and rather an informal product they can relate too but also use to create a new identity for themselves as an escape.