Thursday, 20 September 2012

Different music video types

The first type of music video is known as narrative where a story is shown that typically follows the features of the lyrics such as a boy being in love with a girl or a break up, it can almost be like a short film to keep the audience entertained and focused on the video, typical editing in these videos will be very fast paced with loads of camera cuts sometimes in sync with the music so the audience is more drawn in. an Example of a narrative music video can be seen here for Wheatus - teenage dirtbag





The second type of is performance which contains shots of the artist performing either on a live stage in front of audiences  or various other places like beaches which could draw audiences attention. It can also be of the artist in real life performing different situations or just fooling around in general which can typically be seen in a lot of performance videos for bands. There are a wide range of close up shots of the artist and different visual effects which are common in performance videos which can also clearly be seen in my example;Jay-Z & Kanye West - N**as in Paris


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