Friday, 15 June 2012

Different Types of Music Videos

Performance - band 'performs' the song - U2, Where The Streets Have No Name
Related to the theme - the central idea of the song is represented - either literally or exaggerated (amplified).
Narrative (mini film) - the video tells a story - Ed Sheeran, Lego House

Hybrid performance and narrative - this is perhaps the most common, there is a story going on, intercut with the band performing

Intertextual - the video references a classic film/TV show

No-lip synch - there is no 'miming' in the video, hard to pull off

One take - the video is done in one take

Artist absent - the artist doesn't appear in their video, or appears as a cameo

Cartoon/animation - the band are replaced by digital or drawn representations

Random/weird - the video has nothing to do with the songs theme

Humor - video is funny

The extended video - the video goes way beyond the length of the song (Michael Jackson's Thriller was the first to do this...)

Low Budget - the video has low production values, either deliberately or of necessity (the band have no money)

High Budget - the video is very expensive and has high production values

The video subverts or contradicts the central theme of the video - for instance, if the song is happy then the video will be sad or angry...

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