Narration Script

Narration Script

30 Seconds - Introduction

We as consumers have such choice and diversity with our music today that we struggle to keep up to date with it all. Official study reveals that the average person will spend 13 years of their lives listening to music.  This documentary looks at the musicians who haven’t had their moment in the spotlight who are yet to be signed; we talk to them about their music, their dreams and ambitions as an artist and their view on “getting signed”. This is, The Upcoming.
 

20 Seconds – The difficulty of getting signed

Most musicians share the dream of wanting to be successful.  Social media has given artists and musicians a platform where they can put out their music for no cost.  However, there is a downside to this. The music scene today is very crowded.  There are a wealth of talented bands and musicians who are yet to be put in the limelight and it’s getting more and more difficult to get themselves heard by a mass audience because the amount of competition in today’s music industry.

Logging Sheets

 Logging Sheets

Initial Idea Brainstorm

Initial Ideas – Brainstorm

These are our initial ideas when it came to choosing an interview subject, we chose; Food, rap battle culture & rugby league vs. rugby union we’ll be playing around with these ideas, deciding what will be the most engaging and what footage we will be able to film as a group.

 

 

Interview Questions

Interview Questions

 

1.     How did you start out in the music scene?

2.     Who were your earliest influences in music?

3.     What inspired you to get into music?

4.     Is a goal of yours to get signed?

5.     Is this a difficult thing to do as an artist? Why?

6.     How hard is it to get recognised in music?

7.     What does an artist need to get recognised? What do they have to do?

8.     What’s the cost of being an unsigned artist? (Do you book studio sessions)

9.     As an artist what do you think has been your biggest achievement so far?

10.  What advice would you give to a artist or a band if they look to get noticed?

Questionnaire Results

Running Order

 

Running Order

Montage of music shows and audiences, with clips of the crowds and artists performing, narrator explaining what the documentary's about	45 secs
Opening titles	30 secs
Open with archive footage of famous music videos, narration talks about some facts about music. Also shows action shots of the bands featured and interviewed in the documentary	30 secs
Interviews with our subjects on how they started out as a band. (a little bit about them)	1 minute
Interview with music expert (ie. Someone in music retail) talking about a popular and mainstream artists	1 minute
Narration on difficulty of getting signed, action shots of our featured artists playing underneath the narration. Artist Matt Gilbertson music used as an underbed.	25 secs
Interviews with our subjects on getting signed and the difficulty of this.	1 minute
Interview with music manager about trying to make it in the industry	50 secs
Interview with managers band about their experience getting into the industry	1 min
Narration introduces Matt Gilberton, with short clips of him playing music	20 secs
Interview with Matt Gilberton about how hard it is to break into the industry and what he's done to try and get into the industry, as well as asking him why he makes music and what he loves about it, interspersed with clips of him producing and recording music.	1 min 10 secs
Introduce Joe Howard, and ask about what he does and what his band and music is about	1 min 10 secs
Ask general questions about music, why they love it, what music means to them, what it would mean to have a break in the industry, with clips of them playing recording and producing throughout.	3 min
Advert Break	3 min
Quick recap of first part of documentary, what’s been talked about so far with highlights	30 secs
Introduction to new band on the verge of record deal, talk about how they got to this point and what they're hoping will com from it	2 mins
Fans talking about the record deal	30 secs
Record label talking about why the picked this band and what they like about them.	1 min 30 secs
Narration and facts about how few bands get record deals	30 secs
Interview with industry expert talking about artists they allow to perform in the shop, how this helps them, why they want to help them and how it helps the artists.	1 min 30 sec
narration about the signing process, how bands go from being unsigned to signed	1 mins
band talking about if they think a record deal will change them, interspersed with narration about Kings of Leon, and how their move to being mainstream lost them a lot of their fanbase	2 mins
Talk about the future of the band, where the band wants to go and how they hope to keep their fans happy.	1 min 30 secs
End with expert, general public, and bands talking about why music is important to all of us and why we should support small musicians.	1 min
TOTAL TIME (excluding advertisements)	24 mins

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