Categories of Music Videos

Performance based video

These are music videos, which show either the band or singer performing the song, but there sometimes can be added footage of events to break the footage up and keep the audience engaged. This video type is a low cost option as the majority of the footage is of the band and there is no need to use many locations or actors.

Killers- Somebody Told Me

Genre Rock

Narrative Based Video

This type of music video is fairly explanatory, its footage, which tries to tell a story and lets the audience follow what is going on, this can be done using either actors or the singer. The lyrics also generally link to the actions in the video and there also could be a performance based aspect of the video that breaks the sequence up, such as quick footage of the band playing, also if the song is specifically used in a movie clips of the film may also be shown such as Aerosmith’s, Don’t want to miss a thing.

Genre- Pop

Concept Based Video

Concept music videos generally do not have a storyline and center around a single idea, these videos generally are not as popular as the other two types as it, even the lyrics do not go with the idea, and is set on normally a single location involving either a person or an unusual idea.

George Harrison- When We Was Fab

Genre- Indie