Conventions of a Music Video.

This is a bubbl I created outlining the things I believe to be conventions of a music video, to ensure the successes of a music video.



To sum up the Conventions of a music video, I believe it is split up into four different sections, Location, Narrative, Costume/Props and Lighting.

Location:

• Appropriate shots to the genre.
• Establishing shots of locations to set a scene.
• Select number of locations, to not over complicate the video itself.

Narrative:

• If appropriate have a story line to the video, portraying a message of the song, e.g broken hearts.
• Relating the lyrics to the action within the shots.
• Balancing between lip sync and not.

Costume/props:

• Choose costume appropriate to the location of the video.
• Appropriate to the genre of the song.
• if neccessary props that relate with the location of the shots.
• Not too much going on, to take attention away from the music itself.

Lighting:

• Appropriate to setting.
• used to set the mood of the song, e.g. if sorrowful, quite low key.
• Used to highlight important detail or to high detail.