Within the survey it was important of have a variation of different questions to ask. Its important to consider the ages and their taste in music will be varied to youths of the 21st Century. As we are a newly started band, we are still unsure about our genre, as our songs are different and don't follow a certain genre sometimes. Creating an identity  as musicians is important, I found this YouTube video really helpful with helping to identify yourself in music,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U31xjSzJ0A. Where he askes 5 questions about what you intend and want to achieve as a musician, who are you? what do you do? such as what do you bring to your band or solo career. I like to see it as peeling back different layers of yourself and not always over complicating your answers. 

This article  helps artists expand their creativity and including hat colour palettes and images helps define your band the best https://www.musicgateway.com/blog/how-to/music-branding-build-a-brand. Such as for us, our cover art features all of the songs that are on the EP, that we have written together and worked hard on . "Make sure your music brand image remains the same across all platforms and marketing materials. Do not change the colour, shape or typography because the moment you do that, there is a disconnect. People won’t be able to recognise your brand or recall you. The extent to which you can modify the logo is to use flat colours like black, white or grey when required". For our band 'Out of Bounds' we have had our own logo designed and made for us, which audiences can recall us from the image. Its important to consider,how you wat to be identified through a logo

It was important to ask how different people access music, whether like prefer streaming platforms or buying CDs. The rise of streaming platforms. I found this video highly interesting, as the news report as they discuss how streaming platforms have helped emerging artists to be heard and listened too. Especially TikTok, during the pandemic, artists needed to find a new way to express themselves and release their music. Therefore streaming platforms are on the rise and new artsiest are being introduced more often. Different people like different ways to handle music, whether its physical and through a CD or Vinyl or listening to it through headphones and on their phone. Our results concluded that its very frequent that people go out to buy a CD, when they could pay for a monthly subscription on Spotify etc to have access to loads of different artists.

After we finish our FMP, we should have a better understanding on our target audience. These questions that we have asked helps people to reflect on what music means to them and whether our music fits in with peoples music preferences. The difficulty being, we don't have a set genre, which can be difficult trying to fir us into a category, but ultimately having a vary of genres allows us to be versatile for people to listen too. But overall, this survey was not so much successful, as we didn't come to a full conclusions of who is targeted with our music, as the answers were more drawn to the younger age groups, because we sent them mainly to our friends and family. Therefore, I don't think we found an overall answer, but 32 people that took part did agree that they would listen our music. I think next time we will aim these questions at a younger age group, as the majority age that answered were 16 to 18 year olds. We will probably ask questions to do with social media and how our followers come across new bands, such as, what are they doing to grow in popularity? can we do anything differently to help boost our music?. Therefore I dont think a survey really worked as it is a bit of an old fashioned and young people can be turned off by them.