Does our mode of transportation influence the music we listen to? During my master’s in Culture & Communications in the Creative Industries at Université Paris 8, two classmates and I set out to get an answer.
For the research project, we interviewed people about what they actually listen to on the metro, in the car, on a bike, on a plane, or when walking and asking them why.
The result was a 20-page report on l’Écoute nomade, listening on the move.
Taking Antoine Hennion’s work on music listening behaviors as a starting point, we reviewed existing research, set out our hypotheses and method, and then worked through the interviews to four reasons people score their own journeys.
Once we were done writing, I volunteered to put it all together and make it look good.
I laid it out as something people would want to read rather than a stack of double-spaced pages: full-bleed photographs of people listening in transit, quiet translucent panels for the titles, and the interview quotes pulled out of the body text so the voices carry the story.
Features
20-page qualitative research report written entirely in French
Collaborative research and writing process
Editing for voice consistency
Editorial layout designed in Adobe InDesign