The document discusses different types of music videos including narrative videos like Green Day's "Wake Me Up When September Ends" which uses techniques like shot reverse shot and montage editing to tell a story. It also discusses how music videos represent themes of gender, race, sexuality and materialism. Finally, it explains how postmodern music videos use techniques like pastiche, parody, and intertextuality by copying or referencing other works.

1. Music video types
Narrative
Green Day – ‘Wake Me Up When September Ends
Narrative:
Dialog – two people sat in a field
Editing Technique – shot reverse shot
Performance footage – close up shot, montage editing , band playing
Narrative enigma – builds suspense
Mise en Scene:
everything is the frame, physicality of actors, proxemics
summer – high key lighting
countryside – setting – field
boy girl theme of love
Representation
Beyoncé Jay-z – Crazy in Love
ThemeGender- Objectified, Empowered
Race- Negative
Sexuality- Heterosexual
Materialism- Beyoncé e wears more expensive clothes
Violence- Blows up Car

2. Post Modernism and Music Video
Postmodern media copies or borrows from other forms of media
Pastiche – a performer/artist will pay homage to another performer/artist from the past
Oasis – Supersonic
Miley Cyrus – Wrecking Ball
The Beatles rooftop performance
Nobody Compares to you - Sinead O’Connor
Parody – An Artist/performer mocks the wok of another in a satirical
Buddy Holly – Peggy Sue
Nirvana – In Bloom
Intertextualiy- when one piece of media references another earlier piece of media

3. Starsky and Hutch – Opening credits
The Beastie Boys - Sabotage
Lady gaga – Applause Madonna – Vogue
Lady gaga - ApplauseMadonna – Express Yourself