Concept Videos - Symbolic vs Thematic Music Videos
1. Concept Videos –
Symbolic videos
• Builds up symbols to create meaning
• Uses a lot of montage, which makes the video hard to work out
hard to work out
• The use of Mise-en-scene is important
• The editing play an important role – dissolve, overlay
Thematic videos
• Has a running theme throughout the music video
• Repetition of image
• Black and white colour scheme throughout
• Absence of recognisable settings
• Does not include much Mise-En-Scene
Examples of Symbolic Music Videos – Examples of Thematic Music Videos –