A music video is a short film that promotes a song through visual imagery that typically interprets the lyrics or complements the theme of the song. There are several types of music videos including performance-based videos that focus on the artist performing, narrative-based videos that tell a story related to the song's lyrics or genre, symbolic videos that represent the genre through visual symbols and imagery, thematic videos that embody the themes and conventions of a musical genre, and animated videos featuring animated characters.