styles and techniques

1. Styles and Techniques in
Music Videos
By Lydia

2. Arctic Monkeys – Do I Wanna Know
• It is Indie Rock Music Video.
• This video is animated and also surrealist as it is not real.
• The animation is simple at first as it is in black and white then it brings
in one colour at a time as the song goes on.

3. Blank Space – Taylor Swift
• The video tells a story so it narrative video. The story matches the
lyrics. The video has lots of lip syncing.
• The video has lots of close up shots on Taylor Swift also the first shot
is a set up shot as it shows where the video is taking place.
• The videos tends to cut from light to dark.
• The video is a pop video it was popular for a while then was soon
replaced by another pop video, it would be called ‘girly’ as it is all
about relationships.

4. Foster The People - Pumped up Kicks
• The video shows the band in-concert while also telling the story of
there tour.
• The narrative of the video is the story of there tour and what they did
the story doesn’t really match the lyrics.
• There is some lip syncing as they performing live it shows them in
sync with the music.

5. What Do You Mean? – Justin Bieber
• This video is parody made by Bart Baker. The video takes the mick out
of the lyrics in the song and changes them to make it funny.
• It is done with lip syncing but the changed lyrics, it also has some
surrealist moments as it has an effect to make it look like the guy is
falling through the air.
Parody Original Parody

6. Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know
• This video is an example of impressionist as people can take it how
they want it could also be surrealist because it is not real. The video
shows the artist becoming a piece of abstract art.
• The video also uses miming.

7. blink-182 - All The Small Things
• This is a pastiche as it has copied many other pop videos and used
them to make there own.
• The video uses lip syncing.
• The video shows the band member in different places all places that
would be used in a typical video.

8. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
• This video uses multi-image. Also shows them miming along with the
song.
• The video is a classic rock video famous for the special effects it uses.