Styles Of Music Video

Styles Of Music Video 

There are many different styles of music video's. Narriative, cinematic, studio based, intertextuallity, parody, pastiche, as-live and animation/ stop motion.

Narriative- Narriative music videos follow a storyline, this storyline used in the music video is the musicians choice, it can be in a linear or non linear narrative. The music video may tell a story and may have a meaning to it, for example a story that goes along with the lyrics of the song. Some musicians feature in their own videos and may be part of the storyline. Some genres of music may use the narriative style of music videos more than others. one of the genres that use the narriative storyline a lot would be the pop genre of music. 

Cinematic- A music video that uses a cinematic style will also have a storyline like a narriative music video does. The difference is that a cinematic music video will have a film like quality to it. Cinematic videos have high production qualities. 

Studio based- Studio based music videos are music videos that are based in a studio. 

Intertextuallity- Music videos that use intertextuallity will refer to other exsisting texts. This may be the reffercence to other artists by singing about them or appearing in a simiar style to them in their song.  By style this may be their attire, they may appear in the music video wearing the same or simialar clother or create a music video that is simial to the other artitst. 

Parody- A parody music video will be about another artists song, being a parody it will mock the artists song by taking the mick out of it. It may or may not feature the same lyrics but it will be in the same tune to what the real artist produced. The music video may have different actions to what was in the original. 

Pastiche- Pastice music videos may be featured in another genre or time frame, these music videos, unlike parodies do not mock these, instead it may be taken as an inspiration for the artists music video. 

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