Here's a list of information that students are encouraged to use while collecting data for the Music Marketing Project. Each group has already selected a band and created a logo for their marketing company. The next step is gathering information and I suggest Google docs as a great way of sharing information in a centrally accessible way.
Here's my list in any case:
Music Project Information Gathering checklist:
Band name and logo:
Band Members:
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Key Songwriters:
Album names and dates:
Best selling songs:
When/where was band formed? Broke up?
Part of any scenes? Musical genres?
Who influenced them?
Who did they influence?
Individual Biographical detail for each band member:
Name:
Instruments played:
Songwriter? (name best songs):
Date of birth/death:
Place of birth:
Current/favourite city lived in:
Dates of marriage(s) and current marital status:
Names of child(ren) and years of children’s births, if any:
Other bands they were/are part of:
Suggested story collections for interview:
Band name and logo?
Interesting song names?
Were they at a particularly interesting historical moment (like Woodstock)?
What do they think of other bands (long standing quarrels)?
Embarrassing stories?
Jobs they held before “rock star”?
Your own ideas?
Visual collection:
Posters
Album covers
Tshirts
Key photoshoots
Links to sites and sources:
