Music Videos - The Basics (lesson notes)

Lesson Notes 8/9/17:

Music Videos - The Basics

Here is my first blog task, conveying how real life music videos display typical conventions, allowing me to think of early ideas and concepts that I could think to include in a music video of my own.

The different categories of music videos are;

1. Performance - Band/Artist/Other people performing in their music video.

2. Conceptual - Artist/Band don't perform or appear in music video.

3. Narrative - Story shown in music video, clear beginning, middle and end.

Other categories of music video are:

• Gag/Trick
• Dance
• Animation
• Party/Club
• Film Clip

• Lady Gaga - Applause - lots of different outfits, lots of different locations, innovative.
• Applause had a lot more production value because of the editing process, compared to 1D Beautiful as they used a single location of the beach.

In this post I have displayed my understanding of different categories of music video and how they are represented in each video. I have learnt that the three main types of music video are performance, conceptual and narrative, giving examples of each category. This will help me in the future as it will allow me to see if music video's follow or don't follow the typical conventions of their music video category and it will help me further analyse representation.