what makes a good music video

1. ‘WHAT MAKES A GOOD
MUSIC VIDEO?’
By Sophie Hughes-
Narborough

2. WHAT MAKES A GOOD MUSIC
VIDEO?
 Promotes a single and, normally, an album
 Promotes the artist or band
 Creates, adapts or feeds into a ‘star image’
 Entertains the audience
 Sets the ‘meanings’ of a song by the use of
images

3. Music videos include a number of different elements:
Performance
 Narrative
 Concept:
Thematic
Symbolic

4. PERFORMANCE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zlot0i3Zykw&sa
fe=active

5. NARRATIVE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkEl
fR_NPBI

6. THEMATIC
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=Ob7vObnFUJc

7. SYMBOLIC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D
1Xr-JFLxik