Focus Group Feedback

From the focus group feedback we found out some useful information that we will be able to use when completing our video. The following questions were asked to a target audience aged 16-18 years old.

1What is your favourite genre of music?
The most popular genre of music when we asked our target audience was the genre pop.

2)How often do you watch music videos?
The most common answer when we asked people how often they watched music videos was at least once daily.

3)What type of music video do you prefer?
The most popular style of video is performance.

4)How long do you prefer your music videos to be?
Most of the people we asked liked music videos to be roughly

5) What do you watch your music video on?
The majority said they watched music videos on YouTube.

6)What is your favourite music video?
There was quite a range of answers here, these answer won't necessarily be much help for us but it does show that is interest in music videos.

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