Blog 5 -Target Audience of Artist/Band

The band Green Day is called by many sites on the Internet a "rock band" and according to the website " http://www.joystiq.com/2010/05/14/green-day-more-familiar-to-core-audience-than-beatles/" they believe that the target audience for the band " Targeting the core gaming audience".

The genre of Green Days music is Punk rock, Pop punk, Alternative rock. And they have been awarded a Grammy for best rock album at the Jan 2010 ceremony.


The kinds of magazines that Green Day are featured on the cover of or are have a feature in are:

• On the May 24, 2010 Billy Joe Armstrong appeared on the cover of Kerrang magazine
  

389 15-44 year olds read karrang magazine and 32 45+, 258 of them being men, mostly in the ABC1 group.




NME are also a magazine that Green Day were featured in,






From the nrs website are the statistics about NME magaizine.




294 15-44 year olds read NME magazine and 31 45+'s read the magazine. and out of that 241 are men and 84 are women. majority being in the ABC1 groups.

The band also had a photo shoot for Q magazine for the cover in May 2009:

From the nrs website are the statistics about Q magazine.

The information from the nrs website tells us that 505, 15-44 year olds read Q magazine and 77 45+ people . 406 of these being men and 175 being women. this tells us that the age groups that read this magazine mainly are men ages between15-44. and most of these people being in the ABC1 groups.

Green Day have a facebook page that looks like this:


This is the facebook page for Green Day, this tells the fans about the band (from wiki) and the amount of people that "like" this the number standing at 250,301 people. this is shown on the left hand side.
This shows there fan base, these people are from all across the world.



The official website of Green Day at : http://www.greenday.com/billabong_splash/index.html

looks like this:




All over the website is images of the band and information about the band, their tours. The store, to buy Green Day merchandise. mailing lists and videos, music and song lyrics. And links to join there fan clubs.

The youtube popularity of the song 21 guns by green day shows the areas of the world that the song had been listened to through youtube:

The amounts of views that the youtube video of "whatshername" is

From the information in all of these areas we can gather that the sort of age range would be 15-44 year olds.

Blog 4- Permission

Copyright is important to the Music Industry because it means that no one can cover the song or music video and not pay for the right to cover it or say that they wrote the song or performed it first, when they didn't. illegal copying and down loading of music is an infringement of the copyright laws and it can be hard for the record labels to deal with this as it happens all the time and they cant really stop it.


To make the music video for the song we have chosen we have to write to the record company to ask for permission to use the song for the project.






The email says:

"Dear Sir/Madame

I am an A2 Media student at Sussex Downs college, we are doing a project on the music industry in which we have to make a music video, for an existing band and i am writing to you for permission to use the song "Whatshername" by green day for our music video.


Many thanks
Chantalle Sullivan"

Blog 3 - Song Choice

The song that we have chosen is "Whatsername" by Green day. It was a choice between "Whatsername" and "extraordinary girl". We have chosen this song because we like the song that we think that we could make a video that conveys the message of the song.

The lyrics of the song are:

"Thought I ran into you down on the street,
Then it turned out to only be a dream,
I made a point to burn all of the photographs,
She went away and then I took a different path,
I remember the face, but I can't recall the name,
Now I wonder how whatshername has been...

Seems that she disappeared without a trace,
Did she ever marry ole whatshisface,
I made a point to burn all of the photographs,
She went away and then I took a different path,
I remember the face, but I can't recall the name,
Now I wonder how whatshername has been...

Remember, whatever,
It seems like forever ago!
Remember, whatever,
It seems like forever ago!
The regrets are useless,
In my mind,
She's in my head,
I must confess!
The regrets are useless,
In my mind,
She's in my head,
From so long ago!
(Go... go... go... go...)
(Go... go... go... go... go...)

And in the darkest night,
If my memory serves me right,
I'll never turn back time!
Forgetting you, but not the time!"