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Tuesday, 1 October 2013

Types/Styles of music videos

Some people probably think that all music videos are the same, that they all involve the artist, singing and dancing like a maniac and telling some sort of soppy love story, but they are not all like that. In fact there are three types of music videos: Performance based, Narrative based & Concept based




This screen shot from Justin Bieber's - Beauty & The Beat video is a great example of an performance based music video, the whole video consists of the main artist singing or dancing directed towards the camera 




A narrative based video is one that tells a story. a good example of a narrative based video is: Justin Bieber - As Long As You Love Me


The video is about Justin Bieber and this girl he is in love with but her dad doesn't want them to be together, so he steals her away in the night and they run off together but the dad finds out and beats up Justin, this whole story is displayed the video itself.



A few screen shots of the video above to show you how it's a narrative based video.

This is an example of a concept based video: 

Ok Go - Here It Goes Again




These are creative Music videos. They have nothing to do with the actual story of the song. It is random and has humorous tones. They also seem to be more dependant on mise-en-scene and camera angles to create movement. The video for this song is completely random, its just 8 treadmills and 4 blokes, going up and down in



 
 

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