styles, conventions & Techniques

in concert
in concert footage is the artist or band performing in a music video. for example the script superheroes music video shoe them perform a music concert as part of it


live footage
live footage a video of the artist perform live on stage or on a show in front of  a audience. this example is from Franz Ferdinand concert at T in the park

 narrative and interpretive

narrative is where the music video tells a story. for example in this video it tells a story of how a relationship happen between to people and in the end one of them dies.

surrealist and absurdist



 impressionist

impressionist is when the video makes you the emotes side of the video. for exmalpe in imagine dragons video demons it show you people who have stuggle with live and what they are going  through. which connect with the views of the video and how they would feel if they were going through this in there lives. for exmaple in the video it show someone losing someone they love and how it has effect them.

synergy
synergy is where the video and the song link together, like in film.for example  this video is from a film and is used to in the ending of the film.

allusion
allusion is where a music video may also allude to another media text, an event, a person or any other historical or cultural reference. in the ghost of you sing by my chemical romance the song reference the battle of D Day in WW2

pastiche

pastiche is a light hearted imitation of another artist artist style. for example eminem till i collapse take the minc out of
parody

a parody pokes fun at the original subject matter like this example that poke fun a Adele hello and does a star wars take of hello from the dark side
 homage
homage is when a artist use a music video as a way of paying respect to others influence, like saying thank you. for examlpe in the michael jackson video he said thank to the people of Brazil

animation

animations music video are video which are wholly or partly animated in some way for example i wanna party is all animation.
lip synch

lip synch is a performance video that might require the artist. in this example they get a actor to lip synch to the words for about 2/3 of the video
cutting to beat


post- production effect


 split screen


chroma key

in this cold play video they use green screen to create and wear green outfits to have them shown as monkeys

camera movements
camera movements is using pans and tracking shot. in this example is will smith men in black where they use array of different camera movements from tracking shot to pans to make this music video.

camera and shot types
camera angle and shot type is when the filmmaker uses various shot length and angles. in this example is will smith gettin jiggy wit it where they use array of different angle from wide angle to close up to make this music video.

mise-en-scene