Music videos

There are different types of music video that all intend to visually capture the audience. There are narrative based videos that tell the audience a story. Then there are performance based videos that concentrate mainly on the artists as the perform. Concept based videos which can just be random.


An example of a performance based music video is this song by the Foo fighters, My hero. The Foo fighters do alot of performance based videos as do most bands under the rock music genre. This video is about a man saving people out of a burning buildingm and within the building the band are in the house playing their song as if theyre not there, invisible. The whole video is a hand held shot with no cutting to different angles as if we, as the audience, were him saving people. Clever editting was used also to put the singers face on the tv screen as he's actually singing.

An example of a narrative based video is this song by Plan B, She said. Its a great example of a narrative video as it has a story to the video that links to the lyrics. The lyrics that link he says he's in court, in a box infront of a judge which in the video he really is. The video is of him being in court for a crime he didnt comit. He eventually get taken down for it in the end.