Wednesday, 19 September 2012

Categories of music videos



Although there are many categories for music videos, the 3 most common are:

  • Performance based videos- band or artist is playing the song throughout the video
  • Narrative based videos- song involves a narrative & the words and meaning of the song are acted out
  • Concept based- focus on a specific idea and are unique. They can often lack a storyline, mostly random and rarely link to the band or theme of the song


However there are other categories aswell such as:

  • Mixture- The musician plays as well as the narrative storyline while the camera cross cuts between the two
  • Cameo- The musician(s) features in the video but is not part of the storyline
  • Animation/Surreal- can be a fully animated video or half and half, which is creative and entertaining

Music video for 'Take on me' by A-Ha which looks like a comic book
  • Interpretive- something that looks like something else but has a different meaning (normally based on own interpretation)
  • Parody- meant to mock other music videos

Blink 182- All the small things- mocking the boy band 'Backstreet boys '



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