Different Types Of Music Videos...

There are three different types of music videos that make up the videos of today these are as follows Performance, Narrative and Abstract.

A performance music video includes usually a solo or a group of performers either dancing to the song of choice however, it can also just be a group or a solo artist standing and singing into a microphone these are seen to be the easiest of the three as it require the least amount of skill involving camera, computer, editing and organisation skills. Meaning you could in fact set a recorder from one angle as a group either sings or dances which then allows you to produce a music video much easier than a Narrative or a Abstract video. An example of this would be the link as follows:  http://www.muzu.tv/gb/thesaturdays/. This performance includes both dancing and singing and is more commonly used for producing pop music videos these prove to be dominant over this type of video. As they are the easiest genre of music produce.

The second type of music video is the Narrative video which involves a video that isn't related to the song in many ways at all but may just concentrate on a word or sentence from the song chosen. A great example would be ColdPlay's The Scientists link: http://www.muzu.tv/gb/coldplay/the-scientist-edit-music-video/154020/. This type of music video is used for almost any genre of song meaning it is the most popular of the three to produce. It also allows the maker to make the song unique to others as shown in the link that ColdPlay's song is done in reverse. This can prove key for gaining an audience as it grabs their attention as it is a unique video style meaning it also presents questions for the audience such as, How did they make it the way it is? Which grabs the viewers attention.

The third type is the Abstract video, this contains a video of images or short clips that have no connection to each other but, are co-ordinated to match the pace of the song. This is used for videos that look for a unique audience that likes the song and doesn't particulary care about the video or perhaps they just like the style of the video. As I could not find a good example of a Abstract music video I haven't posted a link. This go's to show that it isn't the commonly used video and this may indicate that it is one of the harder videos to make.