Conclusion

During the making of my documentary, I did a lot of research and have come to many different conclusions about a number of different things within the topic of alternative music and culture from 1990-present day. I have discovered that when youths yell stereotypical names at other youths involved in said music genre, the 'emos' and the 'scenes'actually enjoy it, usually. I have discovered that the youths want to be known as a member of this stereotype, as it gives them a sense of belonging. Another thing I have discovered is that music has changed drastically since 1990. The lyrics in alternative songs are perhaps even more aggressive now, the music has a bigger edge to it and the number of alternative bands has doubled. I have come to the conclusion that in another twenty years, alternative music will have an alternative name, and will no longer be the type of music we associate with alternative nowadays. I have come to the conclusion that as society moves on, music will follow. I believe that in another twenty years, there will still be those who have classified themselves as a particular type of person simply because of the type of music they enjoy. That will never change. I believe stereotyping and alternative/indie/emo/punk/rock music is a very positive issue that has perhaps given many youths hope for the future and will continue to do so, even when the genres alter.

Book and Magazine Information

For my documentary, I think it is important to have information from different books and magazines in order to grasp a better understanding on other people's opinions on the subject, and magazines such as kerrang! and NME contain information specific to my topic. Books such as autobiographies and biographies will also be useful in collecting information to use in a voice over in my documentary.

Videos To Use For Documentary

In my documentary, it is important to have footage as well as pictures and statistics. To ensure maximum viewing pleasure I have listed several videos from internet sites that I believe will be useful in making my documentary interesting.

The first useful video I have found is of punk rock band Sum 41 performing at Reading Festival 2002. It is suitable for my documentary as it gives insight into the genre of punk rock music and shows the fans in their element. Picture 1.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFNrYnC9mVM

Another good video is of punk rock band Green Day, being interviewed in Australia about their upcoming 21^st Centuary Breakdown tour. It is suitable for my documentary as it shows alternative clothing styles and how scenes and punks act in relaxed situations. Picture 2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1ji9yaGsXU

This video is of emo and alternative band My Chemical Romance performing live in Mexico to thousands of crazy fans. It is suitable for my documentary as it shows another genre that compliments the alternative and scene stereotype of youths. The audience members consist of scene kids and emos. Picture 3.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPq1mRORMTA&feature=fvst

This video is of alternative and fantastic band Muse performing a stereot

ypically alternative song. It is suitable for my documentary as it shows the style of music that has come about for 2010 on account of 1990’s punk rock music. Picture 4.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99I7gpswhQ4

This video is a compilation of different photographs of girls of the scene stereotype and emo stereotype. It is suitable for my documentary as it shows the hairstyles, clothes and makeup of scenes and emos, all of which are just as essential as the music itself. Picture 5.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIj09hhV6LI&feature=related

This video is of an interview with Sum 41, speaking of their new album and attempting to describe the genre and where they get ideas for their songs. It is suitable for my documentary as it gives insight into what goes into writing a punk rock song. Picture 6.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ4NyBZwkFU.

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Interviews for Documentary

For my documentary, it is essential to get opinions from people other than myself. This will ensure that I get unbiased information. I will be interviewing Pete Wentz from the punk rock band Fall Out Boy, a teenager who stereotypes herself as an emo, and said teenager's mother. This will ensure a wide range of opinions on my chosen topic.

For my interview with Pete Wentz I will be asking the following questions:
1) How exactly do you categorize Fall Out Boy?
2) Do you think of your fans as any particular stereotype?
3) What about the Hannah Bond case, what is your opinion on that?
4) Do you think the term 'emo' nowadays is more about the attention and the clothing, or do you think the music is just as important now as ever?
5) Do Fall Out Boy intend to appeal to 'emo' and 'scene' kids?
6) Who were your influences?
7) How do you stereotype yourself?
8) How do you think music has influenced youths of today?
9) Do you think stereotypes are good things or bad things?
10) What, in your opinion, categorizes a 'scene' or 'emo' song?
Pete Wentz will be a good choice of interviewee because he has years of experience in dealing with stereotyped teens and plays the music that emo kids worship. He will be able to give facts about the band etc.

For my interview with a self-described 'emo' teenager, I will ask the following questions:
1) How exactly do you categorize yourself?
2) Do you get a lot of stick from people who aren't into your own music?
3) Who are your favourite bands?
4) How do you think your parents feel about your type of music?
5) Why do you dress how you dress?
6) What is good about being 'emo'?
7) Are your friends into the same music as you?
8) Do you think 'emo' nowadays is about the attention and clothing or do you think the music is just as important as ever?
9) What is not so good about being 'emo'?
10) Do you care what people think of you?
This teen is a good choice for an interviewee because she is aged 16, having been involved in her stereotype for three years now. She knows exactly how emo children think and act and knows what music they enjoy. She will be able to give good points about the stereotype.

For my interview with the teens mother I will ask the following questions:
1) How does your daughter stereotype herself?
2)Do you think stereotypes have a place in society?
3) Do you mind watching your daughter stand up for what she believes in?
4) How do you feel about the music your teen listens to?
5)Does your teen get singled out for being her stereotype?
6) Does it make a difference what stereotype someone is?
7) Do you think this stereotype is just a phase?
8) Were you a stereotype as a teenager?
9) Are your daughter's friends of the same stereotype?
10) Do you think it is a big deal, being your daughter's stereotype, and do you think it will influence her choices?
This teen mother is a good choice for an interviewee because she will know first hand, from an unbiased point of view, how her child acts and will be able to say if she thinks being 'emo' is a good thing or a bad thing, and whether she thinks 'emo' nowadays is more about the attention than anything else.

Rough Plan of Documentary

For my documentary, I plan on beginning with a random assortment of pictures flying in and out, of ten different punk/rock/alternative bands to the tune 'Misery Business' by the band Paramore. Following this, I plan to have a few statistics read out in a voice over, including how many songs teens have on their ipods and how many teens feel music is important. This will last approximately two minutes.

Stereotypes will be the next issue looked at in the documentary. An interview with a teenager who has self-stereotyped will be included, with ten questions and answers. Directly after this I will include an interview with said teens mother, and find out her opinion on the same subject. These two interviews with answers combined should total about five minutes. After this, an interview with Pete Wentz from Fall Out Boy will be done, with ten questions about the music his band play and how he feels about stereotypes. A chart of teen opinion on stereotypes will be shown. This will last a further three minutes.

I will then include several pictures of the stereotype, (emo, scene, goth etc) and their associated fashion sense and hair style to the song, 'The Party Scene' by All Time Low. This will last three minutes.

After this, I will include information on festivals and concerts, beginning with shot footage of fans lining up outside a concert arena and a voice over entailing teen opinions of festivals and gigs. The chart from which this information was taken will then be shown. Pictures of crowds at different festivals will be shown, to the song Plug In Baby by Muse. Information from newspapers on the festival schedule will be read out. This will last for approximately one minute.

Then, several videos of live performances from several different artists including Nirvana, Sum 41 and My Chemical Romance. This will last approximately five minutes.

I will then include a video of an interview with Green Day giving their opinion on stereotypes and information on upcoming gigs of theirs. This video will be edited to last one minute.

The next thing i will include will be footage shot of random interviews with teens on the street. In this, they will talk about their opinion on rock and alternative music and how they think it has effected youth culture. They will be asked to list a few of their favourite bands and artists and asked their opinion on chart music. This will last for approximately two minutes, switching from teen to teen.

Following this, the six charts on teen opinion of different music genres, (punk, rock, indie, alternative etc) will be shown, with a voice over describing the different findings. This will last a further one minute.

The documentary will end with a slideshow of different pictures of how music has changed through the ages; with Sum 41 at the beginning for example and Fall Out Boy at the end. Pictures of stereotypes within youth culture will be shown. This will be accompained by the song 'Alpha Dog' by Fall Out Boy. This will last for the full three minutes.

Statistics On Punk Rock and Alternative Music

According to a recent survey, only a fifth of today's teenagers spend more than £20 per month on music and the most popular amount to spend per month on CD's and music downloads is £10 - approximately one album, or 10 songs from Itunes. However, it seems that only 50% of teenagers think that music is a big contributing factor in their lives, and only 40% think that it has influenced the way they act and think. Nearly four fifths of teens today think that music helps them along with their problems, which may be of interest to the three fifths who think it has not influenced them in any way.

In conclusion, it seems, teenagers feel very strongly about music and rock bands that they like, and feel like the artists and bands mean a lot to them and their stereotype.

Questionnaire

Interesting Facts On Alternative Clothing

As a result of all of this alternative music changing youths personalities, clothing for teenagers has taken a drastic turn too. Instead of the telltale layers that were around in clothing for teenagers in the '80's, with loose fitting tops covered with tighter ones and loose jeans, a new style of clothing emerged. Emos, scenes and even goths from all over the world began to take black as the new everything, emos in particular, which is how emos came to be associated unfairly with negativity and sadness. Scenes would mix in a splash of colour with their outfits, but would always stick with something black as the primary part of their outfit. Heavy black eyeliner, black nail polish and black lipstick became popular with alternative females, and sales of the brand All Star Converse footwear rocketed. Nowadays, a pair of black Converse shoes are necessary for any type of alternatively dressing youth, and other colours are becoming popular too.
Skulls, roses, guitars, rabbits and cats became popular designs for scene t-shirts, while skirts became popular again, this time coming back with less material and a lot more attitude.
Wristbands, band tees, hats, shorts and colourful tights all became factors in shaping the way scenes and emos act and think.
Nowadays, alternative youths from all over the world can be seen in their skirts, with their colourful tights underneath, their black converse and some form of band tee.

Alternative youths have adapted to this kind of clothing because of their heroes; the band members. Bands such as My Chemical Romance for example, wear army jackets on stage during their concerts, and so army style clothing has become very popular among their fans. Fall Out Boy fans will be seen in hats the same style as lead singer Patrick Stump, and fans of Paramore tend to dye their hair red or orange like Hayley Williams.

Newspaper Reports and News Articles

For the first time since the birth of punk, rock, emo and scene music, fans of the genres are spending more on attending concerts and festivals than they are on recorded music. The Glastonbury festival for example, something which was assumed to be just as successful as Download or Reading and Leeds, has been proven as being viewed a 'once in a lifetime' opportunity for concert goers, and so many are spending a lot to go to it. People in Britain spent an estimated £1.9 billion on going to festivals last year, and a measly £1.5 billion on recorded music in the form of CD's.
The number of festivals and the line up for festivals plays a big part in this dramatic change to the youth culture. In the year 2000 for example, there were only 12 music festivals to go to, and in 2009 an estimated 664 were played at and loved.

The band Green Day's best selling album American Idiot is set to appear on Broadway, shocking fans across the world. Michael Mayer and co have adapted the album and accompanying book (written by front man Billie Joe Armstrong) to come up with a brilliantly album-orientated musical that will be played in St James Theatre in April. Casting has not yet begun, but one can be sure the attendants to the show will be of the punk rock culture, and aged somewhere between 12 and 19.

Researchers at a Scottish University have recently carried out studies on music, the results of which show that playing rock music while studying may be of benefit to teenagers preparing for GCSE and A Level examinations. The researchers believe that the sound of guitar-based rock such as Red Hot Chilli Peppers, AC/DC and Jimi Hendrix improves concentration and boosts memory. In order to get their results, the researchers carried out a simple test on sixteen volunteers. Firstly, they played each of the volunteers a classical song and asked them to carry out a simple memory test. Then they did the same with rock music, static noise, and finally silence. The results showed that while classical music was better for cognitive tasks, the rock fans listening to the rock music carried out the memory task with a lot less brain power than they did when doing the test in silence. This may be bad news for long suffering parents of scene and emo adolescents, however.

bbc.co.uk -
Every year 80,000 punk rock fans gather at Donnington Park to see the Download festival. 200 was no exception. As of every year, the crowd eighty thousand well tattooed, well pierced, happy individuals filed into Donnington Park to see bands such as Faith No More, Slipknot, Limp Bizkit and the Prodigy, and they were not disappointed. Heavy metal music and rock music never go out of fashion, that is the beauty of festivals such as Download.
Hollywood Undead, the rapcore band, open the show and set the bar for the rest of the acts to live up to. Slipknot follow them well, wearing their telltale masks and doing a medley of Linkin Park songs. Emo-pop band The Blackout enthralled the emo fans the next day, followed by Korn and Limp Bizkit. Enter Shikari ended the day on a high. At the end of the festival it is agreed by all that 2009 has been one of the best years for Download.

About Alternative Music

Alternative music has had a significant effect on how today's youths act and dress. Usually shortened to 'alt-rock' or simply 'alternative', alternative rock music is a genre most famous for the fans it acquires rather than the music itself. It emerged in the '80's, but did not really catch on until mid '90's, until about the time of Nirvana.

Such a band represented a break from the innovative, hyper rational post-punk years and introduced a whole new generation of music that would change the youths of today. Alternative bands built underground followings by touring constantly and regularly releasing new songs for their small and select fan bases.

So many sub-genres of music are associated with alternative music that most of the bands have tried hard to get away from being considered in such a vague genre. Some such genres are: grunge, britpop, gothic rock, indie and emo. These genres and unified by the fact that they all have blossomed from punk rock music.

The young people identified with such genres usually refer to themselves as 'emos' or 'scene kids', something which came about from their peers intending to insult them. The names caught on, however, and to this day anyone interested in bands such as My Chemical Romance as referred to as 'Emos' and anyone interested in bands such as 3OH!3 are referred to as 'Scenes'. Associated with these stereotypes comes a very rigid style of clothing that anyone 'Scene' or 'Emo' has to stick to if they wish to be accepted within such a group.